[Sugar-devel] Issue tracking on Github?

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 18.05.2016, at 17:01, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
> On 18 May 2016 at 10:54, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de <mailto:bert at freudenbergs.de>> wrote:
> On 18.05.2016, at 16:26, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com <mailto:dave at lab6.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> On 18 May 2016 at 09:57, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net <mailto:tony_anderson at usa.net>> wrote:
>> Its an educational project. An example is https://github.com/ezequielpereira/Bridge <https://github.com/ezequielpereira/Bridge>. This version of the Bridge-activity was developed as part of GCI. 
>> The zip downloaded from github is named Bridge-master.zip. I copied the zip to an XO-1.75, unzipped, and ran setup.py dist_xo. The result was a 
>> proper xo bundle which installed and ran. 
>> 
>> Sounds good :)
>>  
>> However, it failed to start: import error lib/box2d_32/_Box2D.so.
>> 
>> Is that error a bug in the program?
> 
> More likely an intel / arm problem. The XO-1.75 needs ARMv7 binaries, while older XOs used x86. The activity bundle would have to include .so files for each supported architecture. I don’t think we ever extended the bundle structure to properly handle multi-arch, it was designed for platform-independent code like Python.
> 
> Okay cool :)
> 
> Can the bundle structure deal with this in an ad-hoc way, or does it need changes to the Sugar Desktop platform itself? 

The bundle can have arbitrary library folders, but the activity would need to implement selecting the right binary for the current architecture.

- Bert -

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