[Sugar-devel] Bundling plugins with Browse

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:47 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>
> On 09.12.2008, at 22:29, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 09.12.2008, at 18:49, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
>>>>
>>>> http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/Browse-99.xo seems to be working for
>>>> me. Please test.
>>>> Attached is the patch which did the trick.
>>>
>>> Ugh. Why is it necessary to copy the plugin to $SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT/
>>> data ? That would only make sense if it is supposed to be modified at
>>> runtime.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Do stuff placed in $SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT remain persistent across
>> reboots ? I seem to have troubles getting that (the file disappeared
>> after reboot)
>
>
> You misunderstood. Why copy at all? Why not run it from the bundle?
>
> Copying from the bundle is only necessary for e.g. default configuration
> files that the activity needs to be able to change later (because the bundle
> itself is read-only).
>


Ah, ok, I was blindly following cert8.db
http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/Browse-101.xo follows your solution
and seems to work fine. Moreover, theoretically one can drop any
plugin in the plugin directory of Browse, and expect it to work.

Everyone, please test this as much as possible. Also, how do I include
the source of the binaries (mozplugger, m4) in the Browse bundle ?

Thanks,
Sayamindu




-- 
Sayamindu Dasgupta
[http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
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