[Sugar-devel] Binary Blobs (was: Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Heart Rate Monitor Peripheral)

[Wade Brainerd]

I would really like to have an official mechanism for dealing with
this, as it's preventing several of my activities from working on
SoaS.

I used to just include x86 Python 2.5 compiled modules in my bundles,
but now we are supporting more architectures.

One proposal is to have a build machine which supports cross compiling
all our supported architectures, which can compile the blobs.  Then we
include all the blobs inside the .xo bundle.  This is like what OSX
does with Application bundles.

Another is to support compile-on-install.  This requires a build
system to be present on the user's machine, which is a steep
requirement.

I'm leaning towards #1, we just need to work out the details and get it set up.

-Wade

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Sascha Silbe
<sascha-ml-ui-sugar-devel at silbe.org> wrote:
> Note: Follow up from a discussion on iaep.
>
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 08:31:15AM -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
>
>> (At one point, Sascha had helped me include a script that would build the
>> appropriate binaries at install time, but that solution depends upon a build
>> environment be installed, which is not the default for most OLPC systems.
>> Oops.)
>
> Actually, the latest version contained support for precompiled binary blobs
> as well (choosing the right one for the architecture and validating
> currency), but we agreed to pull it from regular TA because it was late in
> the release cycle. We might try again now (in the 0.86 branch) and see how
> well it works.
>
> CU Sascha
>
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