[Sugar-devel] [POLL] Non Sugar Platform activities in Activity Library

[Walter Bender]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 07:17:54AM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Before this moment some binary actitieis on ASLO bundle per architeture
>> blobs since binaries didn't weight much. But it doesn't play in case of
>> http://www.geogebra.org/ which is Java based application (bundling blobs
>> per architecture will mean 50M of dependencies and 5M of geogebra itself).
>>
>> Since Sugar Platform can't grow endlessly, some dependencies can't be
>> included to SP(here Java). But bundling some of them will be pretty
>> overkill(Java, Qt etc). At the same time fetching dependencies on
>> demand(on first launch) could not fit to some deployment models.
>>
>> So, the question is - how handle such non SP big dependencies in ASLO.
>> Possible answers:
>>
>> 1) hmm.. what are you talking about, sugar is pure python environment
>>    and blobs(not python) is evil, ASLO should handle only python
>>    based activities(or activity should bundle all its dependencies)
>>
>> 2) activities that don't have bundled all dependencies should be
>>    explicitly marked to not mess them w/ fully bundling ones
>>
>> 3) use complicated model when ASLO makes decision for every downloading,
>>    should dependencies be included or not
>
> or less complicated scheme when there will be per architeture bundles,
> uploader will push pure 0sugar activity and ASLO will cook .xos with
> all dependencies bundled per architeture.
>
>>
>> Please suggest your variants and attach your +/-
>>
>> --
>>
>> 2) +1
>>
>> --
>> Aleksey
>
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> Aleksey
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Could we have a scheme where by we make a primary bundle and then
secondary bundles with the arch-dep bits, one per arch. and have a way
in ASLO to grab from both as needed?

-walter

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Walter Bender
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