[Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] Oversight Board request: Not fully bundled .xo

[Walter Bender]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 13:00 +1100, James Cameron wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 10:20:11PM -0300, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>> > Meanwhile, distros are repackaging our xo bundles into native rpms and
>> > debs... Are we sure we couldn't just sit and let the distros do their
>> > job?
>>
>> Adds to the latency between writing code and having it used.
>>
>> Distribution policies, while they are well meaning and good for
>> distributions, also increase the effort required.
>
> Indeed, this would be a problem. But I see two possible solutions:
>
> (1) add a sugar repository besides those provided by the upstream
> distro;
>
> (2) become co-maintainers of the packages to issue updates whenever we
> like.
>
> If Sugar activities are used only by Sugar, we can set our own policies.
> The KDE people have a lot of autonomy within Fedora and Ubuntu. They
> have been known to ship new mayor versions of their desktop disguised as
> stability updates :-)

I am not sure that Sugar activities are always strictly Sugar only.
Etoys and Turtle Art being examples of activities that have a life
outside of Sugar and within Sugar.

-walter
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