[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] addons.sugarlabs.org is starting to work

[Carol Farlow Lerche]

Why not provide a dependency declaration in the activity file which can be
checked when the activity is installed?  It could inform the user that a
particular package or library was needed.  I understand that different
distros may package the dependencies differently, but it wouldn't be so bad
if the user had to identify this at registration (if not an XO running a
recognizeable distribution) or when using the activity.s.o site.  Then the
checker could recognize which dependency declaration to use (or could
announce "this activity has dependencies but your distribution hasn't been
described" -- or words to that effect.

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Luke Faraone <luke at faraone.cc> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org>wrote:
>
>> What will happen if someone download TamTam/StoryBuilder/etc,
>> and unfortunately hasn't csound/pygame/etc installed?
>>
>> One possible decision:
>> we could create meta package w/ frequently used dependencies,
>> like csound/olpcsound, pygames etc
>>
>> Whats our strategy in that case for short/long period?
>
>
> The *ideal* method would be to use a standard packaging method long term,
> ie .deb (which I'm partial to) or RPM. (both of these can be converted from
> and to each other with alien)
>
> Currently the main objection to using "system packaging" is that they
> require administrative privlages to install; unfortunately, so would any
> other solution other than requiring that *all* sugar installs had *all* the
> packages in the "sugar system" (like we were able to do with the XO). That
> method does not scale, and it forces people to handle shared libs.
>
> If we decided to look into using debs or RPMs, we could easilly use apt-get
> or yum in "prefix mode", which lets non-root users install packages.
>
> Or, we could continue to use XO bundles, which have no dependancy handling
> what so ever. Even if we standardized on metapackages, we'd still need to
> either A) request that the system administrator install them, or B) make a
> XO bundle format for shared libs.
>
> --
> Luke Faraone
> http://luke.faraone.cc
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