[Sugar-devel] [SWEETS] Sweets v1.0.2 release

[Aleksey Lim]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 04:54:01PM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Rafael Ortiz <rafael at activitycentral.com>wrote:
> 
> > Hi Aleksey
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at activitycentral.org>wrote:
> >
> >> == Sweets-1.0.2 ==
> >>
> >>
> > I tested this version using dextrose and experienced no problems :).
> >
> >
> >> Major features in this release:
> >>
> >> * Self-contained binary bundles
> >>
> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Sweets/Architecture#Self-contained_binary_bundles
> >>
> >>
> >
> What means this?
> 
> I like many of the ideas in sweets (like adding more metadata to
> activity.info)
> but as isolated does not reach its full potential.

This is exactly what wiki page says, ie, for special cases only.
On the same wiki page this is the 3rd delivery way from 4 existing for
now.

For example, I need a way to run some software w/ not trivial
dependencies in foreign environment only once, and setting up
Zero Install/Sweets/PackageKit is an overkill. Using a self-contained
bundle is exactly the way.

I'm not sure that it might be useful for binary based activities (even
as an intermediate solution), as Rafael, mentioned. Because such self
contained binary bundles should be launched exactly in the same
environment (for now, people who provide bundles that tends to be self
contained need to support bunch of distro releases and platform arches).

-- 
Aleksey