[Sugar-devel] Issue tracking on Github?

[Dave Crossland]

On 18 May 2016 at 11:59, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:

> 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> wrote:
>
>> On 18.05.2016, at 16:26, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> On 18 May 2016 at 09:57, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Its an educational project. An example is
>>> 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.
>

Awesome!

I filed https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/issues/87 to help raise
awareness of this :)

-- 
Cheers
Dave
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