[Sugar-devel] Manifests obsolescence in new Sugar versions

[laurent bernabe]

Ok, thank you,

so i'll remove MANIFEST in the next commit, and keep on giving all
necessary files

Le 9 mars 2012 18:53, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> a écrit :

> In first place, would be good if you put all the files needed to create
> the bundle in git.
> Then anybody else who want experiment, modify, etc, can do it.
> Git works great with binary/big files too.
> If not, you should ask for support of MANIFEST files at build time,
> may be as a option. If the file exist, is used, if not use the list from
> git.
> Another option is create a custom setup file.
> I did it in the wikipedia activity, because the data files are huge,
> and I use the same activity with different directories with the data for
> every language,
> then the logic to create the bundle is not standard.
> In your case I think the best is add the files to git.
>
> Gonzalo
>
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:21 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Gonzalo,
>>
>> My Read Etexts Activity includes a data file in the bundle (a catalog of
>> e-books from PG and PG Australia) that I have never put in git because it
>> did not seem an appropriate use of git.  I did list it in the MANIFEST.
>> There are temporary data files in my source directory (books for PG, books
>> for PGA) that I don't want in the bundle OR in git.  With the MANIFEST this
>> was not a problem.  Without the MANIFEST I have to wonder.
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
>> James Simmons
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:39 AM, laurent bernabe <
>>> laurent.bernabe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ok, I think I've understood :
>>>> Before, sugar git was unable to manage files correctly without the
>>>> MANIFEST, but now it is resolved.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> No. The MANIFEST file was used only at the time of build a activity.
>>> Now the build is done using the list of files in git if there are a repo,
>>> or all the files if not.
>>>
>>> Gonzalo
>>>
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