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

[David Farning]

Aleksey,

You are taking on a hughly import piece of the puzzle.  Mozilla
struggled, and continues to struggle, to figure out how to package and
distribute addons.

Addons, for the most part,  just work on the windows platform, because
developers know what resources and apis are available.  This becomes
more complicated on Linux bcause distributions provide different
resources.  As such, some packages must be packaged in the native
package management systems to pull in dependencies and interact with
the system.

Other packages can build on top of Mozilla.

Between this and the users space/root issues, this will be an
interesting, challenging, and unsolved problem:)

david

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Maybe its only my peculiar desire (to talk about packaging issues:), but...
>
> Since I'm trying support sugar in Gentoo/ALILinux/Mandriva,
> I don't know how to treat honey activities:
>
> - package them all
>  and do not rely on w.l.o/addons.s.o
> - let user download them from w.l.o/addons.s.o
>  - what about installing proper deps
>  - prevent installing unsupported (for current platform) activities
>  - blobs in activities, what should I do with pre-built 32b .so
>    on x86_64 (and future ARM/MIPS) platform
>
> In regard to that issue I've created wiki page to formalize
> all possible solutions, please take a look at that and feel free
> to add your own comments/pro/contras/schemas:
>
> http://sugarlabs.org/go/ActivityTeam/PackagingIdeas
>
> --
> Aleksey
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