[Sugar-devel] A Better ASLO

[Jerry Vonau]

> On April 26, 2014 at 10:03 AM Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 11:52 PM, Jerry Vonau <me at jvonau.ca> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On April 25, 2014 at 8:54 PM Sam Parkinson <sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Apr 19, 2014 11:16 PM, "Tony Anderson" <tony at olenepal.org> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > Sorry I can't submit this to the lists - my internet provider
> >> > doesn't
> >> allow
> >> > sending to my email provider (sigh).
> >> >
> >> > There is an apparent policy to support the Sugar Activities
> >> > distributed
> >> > with builds 21 and 13 although not on ASLO. Walter has provided
> >> > links
> >> > to
> >> > a version of TuxMath which works on the current builds, but this has
> >> > not,
> >> so
> >> > far as I know been posted on ASLO.
> >>
> >> OK, I might not be on the same page, but are you talking about
> >> activities
> >> with different builds for different sugar versions?
> >>
> >
> > Think what Tony is referring to above are the versions of TuxMath &
> > TuxPaint that are used in AU but require the underlying rpms to be
> > present
> > before the activity is usable. This would preclude the use in ASLO as
> > all
> > the dependencies may not be present in the OS and are not provided in
> > the
> > activity. To have these newer versions effective in ASLO sugar would
> > need a
> > way to install the needed underlying libraries(as rpms) but there is
> > presently no way of doing this automatically right now and there looks
> > to
> > be no effort to add this support(1).
>
>
> If someone is willing to work on this problem, I am confident it would
> be accepted upstream.
>
> -walter

I've reopened the ticket(1) as an enhancement so it's not forgotten about.

Jerry

1. http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4623