[Sugar-devel] A Better ASLO

[Walter Bender]

I updated the ticket description to better reflect the more general
issue we are confronting.

-walter

On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Jerry Vonau <me at jvonau.ca> wrote:
>> 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



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