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== Summary ==
Sweets is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_management_system Package Management System] based on [http://0install.net/ Zero Install], a decentralized cross-distribution software installation system. It is intended to distribute various software projects created in Sugar ecosystem such as libraries, sugar itself, sugar activities.
New distribution method is initiated assuming that:
* The method to share software projects should to be as convenient as possible.
* It is important to stimulate users being doers, change existed activities and share results of experiments between other people, i.e., distribution method should handle different variants of the same project.
* This distribution method is not intended to be the only one.
The purpose to create new distribution method instead of reusing:
* ''.xo bundles''
** Work smooth only for pure python activities and only if all (and the same) dependencies are installed on all systems. It stop working smooth if activities use non-standard dependencies or contain binaries.
** Users need to manually handle the variety of activity versions, e.g., sort out all local bundles or directories in {{Code|~/Activities}}.
* ''native packages''
** Not the shortest way between developers and users.
** In most cases it doesn't support multiple versions of the same project.
** It doesn't work at all for sharing results of experiments.
At the same time existed distribution methods are reused in Sweets:
* ''.xo bundles'' is a subset of Sweets workflow
** It is possible to bundle entirely directory with sweet project to use it as a regular .xo file.
* ''native packages''
** Sweets is not an intention to create one more GNU/Linux distribution. It distributes only projects people create within Sugar community, the rest of software will be reused from native packages.
== Start from ==
== Start from ==
Start from these pages if you are:
Start from these pages:
* [[Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Usage|Sweets Usage]] guide.
* [[Platform_Team/Guide/Core_development|Core developer or need to start core projects from sources]],