[IAEP] Sugar platform overview

Tomeu Vizoso tomeu at sugarlabs.org
Tue Jan 6 04:18:51 EST 2009


On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 08:27, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>
> I think having central [meta-db] has many benefits:
> - collaboration: everybody works in one "trunk"
>  not doing the same work while packaging sugar for various distros
>  patches/content could be moved from [backends] level to [meta-db] level
>  and everybody could benefit from that
> - flexibility: we could choose any format for sugar packaging,
>  it needs only proper templates
> - central db is the simplest way to discover sugar and adding new components
>
> Note:
> http://sugarlabs.org/go/DeploymentTeam/jhconvert
> could be considered as one of the possible prototypes

Sounds good to me if packagers think that will help them. Though I'm
not sure who would maintain such db? The packaging teams themselves?
Do you know of any other upstream project that has such a facility?

Thanks,

Tomeu


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