[Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] Long-term support for Sugar

[Martin Dengler]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 07:06:44PM -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> El Mon, 21-09-2009 a las 23:53 +0100, Martin Dengler escribió:
> > Well I meant precisely what I said (sorry to be pedantic). If one
> > replaces "rpms" with "XO bundles", it's what we have now, and what I
> > think's being proposed to be replaced with rpm/PackageKit.  "Different
> > versions of Write for different users" seems to be an example, yeah.
> 
> Why would we care to have concurrent versions of the same activity for
> different user accounts?

Because to do otherwise is to unnecessarily limit what we can achieve
and unnecessarily regress from what we have now.  I thought that'd be
a pretty huge step backward for, well, as I've pointed out elsewhere,
less functionality and more work.

>  Our computing model is inherently single-user.

Eh?  I didn't realised Sugar prescribed that much about the OS it ran
upon.  In fact, I suspect LTSP people are going to surface in droves
and beat you to a pulp in parallel :).  Or at least point out that
it'd be really nice if Sugar didn't require a whole different OS for a
different user's Sugar desktop environment.

> Besides, once you achieve local installation of rpms in ~/Activities,
> you'd get this feature too.

Indeed - I guess that'd be fine.  Your suggestions were interesting.

Martin
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