[Sugar-devel] discussion about dropping the emulator from the sugar package...

[Gonzalo Odiard]

I think is important Fedora (and other distros) have a option to run sugar
in a window in Gnome.
If not, is more difficult develop activities.

Gonzalo


On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>wrote:

> On 05/07/2013 12:44 PM, Daniel Narvaez wrote:
>
>> On 7 May 2013 10:01, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Advantages of having it together is that as the sugar release changes
>>> the changes are made to sugar the changes to sugar-runner are in lock
>>> step so you should never get into a situation where either shouldn't
>>> work together. It makes it easier from a test/QA that the releases are
>>> together and you don't get into situations where you need to deal with
>>> a "this version works with, doesn't work with" releases.
>>>
>>>
>> The two modules are very decoupled. I think it's  unlikely you will get
>> mismatches (although it could still happen of course).
>>
>> In practice, unless something changes, it's much more likely that you will
>> get a sugar-emulator not working with the sugar in the same tarball,
>> because no one have tested it before releasing.
>>
>>
>>  For what it's worth I'm not completely opposed about folding sugar-runner
>>>> back into sugar  (I suppose it would make packager lives a bit easier).
>>>>
>>> But
>>>
>>>> I'm not going to do that work.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't have time to maintain another package either and from a
>>> packager point of view it adds quite a bit more work especially on the
>>> QA side of things. I'm also still completely unaware of what
>>> dependencies are needed to run it over the old one.
>>>
>>
>>
>> The dependencies should be the same as sugar-emulator.
>>
>> As I said in my answer to Simon, I see sugar-runner a bit as an optional
>> module. imo if yo don't have time to maintain it, it's fine to omit.
>>
>
> Ok, sounds good to just omit it then, for me at least.
>
> Simon
>
>
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