[Sugar-devel] Pippy not ready for Sucrose

[Nirav Patel]

I prefer to look at it pragmatically.  Until there is some kind of
dependency handling for .xo packages, this is the difference between a
child at an existing deployment being able to browse to the wiki,
download an activity, and use it, or not being able to.

Nirav

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:10:11PM -0500, Nirav Patel wrote:
>>PyBox2D is included locally in the activity, just as it is in Physics,
>>x2o, Bridge, and other Activities that use physics.  Though, that is
>>~2.5mB of duplicated libraries for each.
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> ...which causes such .xo packages to *not* be arch-independent!
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> ...and makes bugs in those libraries harder and slower to fix!
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> Also, distributing such .xo packages violates license if not either the
> full source is included as well or a written statement promising to
> provide sources at no exceptional charge if later requested.
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> Distributing binary stuff without its sources is not outright bad, but
> more complex and often more cumbersome: It is asking for "surprises"!
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>  - Jonas