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

[Aleksey Lim]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 07:01:35PM +0100, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 04:48:27PM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> 
> >     bundle all dependencies
> >     but bundle 50M(if we include ARM support it will be 75M) for every
> >     java based activity looks overkill
> IMO the only sane way to handle large dependencies, esp. language ones, 
> is relying on distro packages.
> 
> >     using more flexible scheme when we have
> >     * Sugar Platform and majority of fully bundled activities (since
> >       dependencies were included to SP)
> >     * minority which have non-SP dependencies, such dependencies could 
> > be
> >       * bundled, if they are small
> >       * installed on demand from native packaging systems
> >       * fetched on demand
> This looks like the way to go, esp. the "installed on demand from native 
> packaging systems" part. Rely on distro packages as much as possible, 
> you'll avoid quite some trouble the distributors have already gone 
> through for you (e.g. xulrunner paths differ on distros).
> Distro packages are also
> a) easily and transparently cachable on a local server (apt-cacher, 
> squid, ...)
> b) fetched from the widespread mirror network of distributions rather 
> than the few ones hosting Sugar stuff (APT can even use bittorrent or 
> custom P2P software like apt-p2p)
> c) usually more trustworthy than random builds from some more or less 
> anonymous source
> d) actively maintained, including security updates (except for Ubuntu 
> universe/multiverse).

+1024

and 0install is so smart that it will check if required dependency
* already installed
* could be installed from native packages and ask PackageKit to install it
* fallabck to prebuilt blobs
* fallabck to build from sources in users env
* say phew

-- 
Aleksey