[Sugar-devel] Zero-calorie bundles?

[Bernie Innocenti]

El Thu, 15-10-2009 a las 10:32 +0200, Martin Langhoff escribió:
> I think it's a very good idea to look into a userdir-centric packaging
> system such as z-i. There are of course a few other alternatives, and
> very well considered critiques of these systems (from OS-centric
> packagers usually ;-) ) so we don't have to hope we've diagnosed all
> the potentiall pitfalls -- others have.
> 
> So a couple of questions -- out of curiosity, no intention to start a
> flamefest.
> 
>  - Is anything making z-i specially interesting?

Honestly? I think the most interesting feature of Zero Install is that
it has an active development community working to solve the same hard
problems that we are facing with our XO bundles.

RPM and Deb have even stronger development, of course, but they're
focusing on different usecases and they also seem to be too associated
with specific distributions.


>  - What pitfalls will our individual end users and deployment teams
> face with it?

I'm not sure how to answer this question, yet.

Getting the Zero Install folks involved may bring in fresh expertise
offering new ways to solve the problems on which we have been stalling
for years. Let's give them a chance to prove their ideas.

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