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

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 12.01.2009, at 17:44, luke at faraone.cc wrote:

> On 1/12/09, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>> 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
>
> That'd be a huge amount of work unless we had some standard for  
> naming.
>
> We could use the already-existing python egg package format... which
> already has dep handling and is cross platform. Was that already
> considered?


This seems to ignore non-Python activities.

- Bert -