[Sugar-devel] How to deploy the webactivity libraries

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 2013-05-29, at 16:46, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:

> In other words, I imagine that for activities that meet a certain
> level of complexity/functionality, there will commonly be some point
> at which they cross the line and start depending something specific in
> the underlying system, which breaks any dreams of self contained
> activities. If I'm right, maybe we should consider dropping that as a
> realistic possibility for a reliable experience.

Not being able to achieve 100% independence is no reason to ditch the idea completely. 

Bundling as much as possible in an activity keeps the interface between the activity and the outside world very small. There are a lot fewer things that can go wrong. And that's a Good Thing :)

- Bert -