[Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sugar Services

[Wade Brainerd]

Happy New Year!

Can we bundle some 0install sources (blobs) in the .xo file?  Like,
for Colors! could I bundle the {py25,py26}_{x86,x64} 0install sources
in the .xo file and specify a local path when starting up?

Thus, remote 0install is only invoked in a less common scenario, where
the user is more likely to have a net connection anyway.

Though, the Browse extension sounds neat.

-Wade

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> As was predicted, there could be issue w/ downloading new activities from
> ASLO and first launch them w/o net(see http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1641)
> looks like it could be fixed w/o implementing offline mode in shell(thus only
> in last sugar) but just in Browse.
>
> I'm going to implement such fix for 0.82+ Browses. This fix will let
> users follow regular workflow i.e. get full activity .xo after
> downloading from ASLO but after implementing [6] in shell and switching
> to "online" mode users will download pure .xo and reuse already
> downloaded 0install dependencies.
>
> [6] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Zero_Install_integration
>
> On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:12:01PM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
>> Happy New Year to all,
>>
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Services
>>
>> It is the first version Sugar Services infrastructure which is ready
>> to test or use in simple cases(see Known Issues[1]).
>>
>> In short terms it's about adding decentralized method to support
>> various activity dependencies. See what Services is[2] and is not[3].
>>
>>
>> There are also guides for:
>>
>> * activity developers
>>   http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Documentation_Team/Services/Activity_Developers_Guide
>>
>> * service developers
>>   http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Documentation_Team/Services/Service_Developers_Guide
>>
>>
>> Examples:
>>
>> * CartoonBuilder-9
>>   http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4037
>>   uses Toolkit[4] service which provides new toolbar design for 0.82+
>>
>> * Speak-12
>>   http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4038
>>   uses gst-plugins-espeak[5] service which lets activity use gst plugin
>>   instead of executing espeak command on XO-1
>>
>> In all examples the only change(except bundling 0sugar-launch, since
>> saccharin is not part of Sugar Platform) is adding new string to
>> activity.info:
>>
>>    requires = toolkit; gst-plugins-espeak
>>
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Documentation_Team/Services/Activity_Developers_Guide#Known_issue
>> [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Services#Workflows
>> [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Services#What_is_Sugar_Services_not.3F
>> [4] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Services/Toolkit
>> [5] http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/gst-plugins-espeak
>>
>> --
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