[Sugar-devel] .rpms vs .xos for Activity packaging

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:44:52AM -0500, luke at faraone.cc wrote:
>On 1/12/09, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:43:01PM -0500, luke at faraone.cc wrote:
>>> On 1/11/09, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>>> > Hi all,
>>> >
>>> > Some thought after reading
>>> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sugar_on_Fedora:_RPMs_or_.xos%3F
>>> >
>>> > Maybe instead of choosing one format for activities just add to
>>> > activity.info dependency in common/distro-unbinded notation:
>>> >
>>> > - Activity's author package code in .xo format with dependency string
>>> > like
>>> >   'Requires = pygtk' in activity.info
>>> > - user downloads .xo and pass it to distro-specific installer;
>>> >   installer translates dependency from distro-unbinded notation to
>>> > native
>>> >   package name and pass it to package manager;
>>> >   and install activity itself.
>>>
>>> Something to consider: different distros will have different package
>>> naming conventions and versioning. We might want to encorage using the
>>> fedora dep conventions and look into how the "alien" package handles
>>> this.
>>
>> You missed my main purpose: activity author should not known about variety
>> of
>> GNU/Linux distros, his behaviour should be very straightforward - after
>> including 'import pygame' to .py, please include 'Requires = pygame' to
>> activity.info. The whole dependencies mess in proper distro should be work
>> out
>> by distro-specific installer
>
>That'd be a huge amount of work unless we had some standard for naming.
>
>We could use the already-existing python egg package format... which
>already has dep handling and is cross platform. Was that already
>considered?

I am no expert in Python, but I believe that eggs are currently 
unsupported (and possibly even discouraged) in Debian (and thus also 
some, possibly all, its derivatives).

I also believe eggs to be specific to Python, and .xo packaging is not.


  - Jonas

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