[Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sweets Distribution

[Aleksey Lim]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 10:39:00AM +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 09:22:25AM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:38 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:33:29PM +0800, Ma Xiaojun wrote:
> > >> Can we have a PPA for Ubuntu?

To make OBS[1] choice more clear.

It supports, potentially, building for any RPM and DEB based distro.
To make this, multu-distro, build more simple, OBS on
packages.sugarlabs.org was patched to buld all packages from the same
spec file, sweets.recipe[2].

The last but not least, OBS builds binaries not only for packages
(like Sweets Distribution repos), but for Sweets[3] (to distribute
via Zero Install) as well.

> > > What we have now is a PPA for Sweets, hosted on Sugar servers.
> > >
> > > What you are asking for is to provide those under the Ubuntu Launchpad
> > > infrastructure.
> > >
> > > As far as I can tell, the only advantage would be to shorten the command
> > > line required to install.
> > 
> > Have it easily discoverable by the wider Ubuntu community?
> 
> I don't know what mechanism would lead to discovery.  The only way I've
> found Ubuntu PPAs is by visiting Launchpad pages for projects, or by
> referral from someone.
> 
> The latter mechanism is equal to the way we mention the Sugar Sweets
> repository on the Sweets page on the Sugar Wiki.
> 
> (I think Sugar moving to Launchpad to be a large change without enough
> benefit to outweigh the cost.  I maintain Netrek with some Launchpad
> involvement.  A hope I had was that it would cause more volunteers to
> appear ... but that never happened.)
> 
> -- 
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
> 

[1] http://openbuildservice.org/
[2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Recipe_Specification
[3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Sweets

-- 
Aleksey