[Sugar-devel] Python modules (Re: Introducing SimpleActivity / Introduciendo SimpleActivity

[Walter Bender]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 November 2013 15:09, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>> We need think about the options.
>>
>> I feel something wrong when think about multiple copies of the same
>>  code/library/data, but is true in some spaces the world is going in that
>> direction.
>
>
> Heh I feel something wrong too, sometimes... but maybe we are just getting
> old :P
>
>>
>>
>> Also is true we already have a lot of code duplicated in the activities,
>> and without a good mechanism to get/update/sync.
>
>
> Yeah, so I think it would be good to develop a mechanism to improve that
> situation and to encourage activity authors to write code that can be reused
> in multiple activities. (well, developing one would be some work but I hope
> we can mostly reuse pypi).

I think this is already common practice among many activity
developers. Be nice to have a framework to make it a more
generalizeable practice.

>
> If it turns out to be a good approach, it will probably get extended to
> stuff nearer to the core naturally, without even making an explicit decision
> about it.
>
> One reason I like the idea is that I feel toolkit could be sooooo much
> better. But it's difficult to improve it if, as soon as your API goes
> public, in practice you can't change or drop it anymore.
>
> In a way, I hope the activity developers community will write the next
> generation toolkit for us :)
>
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