[Sugar-devel] sugar-pippy dependencies

[Aleksey Lim]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 09:33:17PM -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> the sugar-pippy rpm in Fedora depends on pygame, which is used by some
> of the examples.
> 
> So far, so good, but pygame in turn depends on numpy, a 7.7MB package
> which a lot of huge dependencies such as atlas (11MB), libgfortran
> (1MB), blas (700KB) and python-nose (1MB).
> 
> The rest of Sugar is now free of numpy, so it would be good if we could
> get rid of it completely.  One quick solution would be splitting the
> problematic examples to a sugar-pippy-examples-extra package.
> 
> Another possibility -- probably the cleanest -- would be splitting the
> optional classes surfarray and sndarray to a subpackage of pygame.

pygame and numpy are parts of Sugar Platform[1], at least for 0.84,
so, the right question is should these pakcages be a part of SP-0.86
I guess +1 for both, since we have honey activities that are depend on
these packages.

[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.84/Sugar_Platform

-- 
Aleksey