[Sugar-devel] .rpms vs .xos for Activity packaging

[Aleksey Lim]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:43:01PM -0500, luke at faraone.cc wrote:
> On 1/11/09, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Some thought after reading
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sugar_on_Fedora:_RPMs_or_.xos%3F
> >
> > Maybe instead of choosing one format for activities just add to
> > activity.info dependency in common/distro-unbinded notation:
> >
> > - Activity's author package code in .xo format with dependency string like
> >   'Requires = pygtk' in activity.info
> > - user downloads .xo and pass it to distro-specific installer;
> >   installer translates dependency from distro-unbinded notation to native
> >   package name and pass it to package manager;
> >   and install activity itself.
> 
> Something to consider: different distros will have different package
> naming conventions and versioning. We might want to encorage using the
> fedora dep conventions and look into how the "alien" package handles
> this.

You missed my main purpose: activity author should not known about variety of
GNU/Linux distros, his behaviour should be very straightforward - after
including 'import pygame' to .py, please include 'Requires = pygame' to
activity.info. The whole dependencies mess in proper distro should be work out
by distro-specific installer

-- 
Aleksey