[Sugar-devel] sugar-widgets request

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 11:08:11AM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 02:32, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> While tweaking/hacking some activities I have to, from time to time, 
>> copy&paste code between activities. Sometime it works well: tempo 
>> slider from TamTam activities means 20-30 lines and 5-7 images. Now 
>> (for Speak activity) I need ChatBox widget from Chat and it costs 400 
>> lines.
>>
>> Its a good idea to support those 400 lines in one repo. Whats the 
>> right place for it? And in common, should we collect such 
>> widgets/libraries in one place, sugar-toolkit? new project 
>> sugar-widgets?
>
>A new project seems like more work for both upstream developers and 
>packagers. Any downsides if we put them in sugar-toolkit?

A benefit of using a separate package could be (depending on which 
features from recent versions of core packages that it rely on) that it 
could work even with existing deployments using Sugar 0.82!


  - Jonas

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