Platform Team/Package Management System/Getting started: Difference between revisions
Inkyfingers (talk | contribs) Perhaps the new web page could help to point the 'way in' |
m link update |
||
| (4 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
| Line 2: | Line 2: | ||
[[User:Alsroot|Aleksey]] has prepared a new distribution model for Sugar called [[Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Usage|Sweets]], and asks about introducing it to non developers, {{Bug|3249}}. | [[User:Alsroot|Aleksey]] has prepared a new distribution model for Sugar called [[Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Usage|Sweets]], and asks about introducing it to non developers, {{Bug|3249}}. | ||
:: Sorry, but the ticket was about [[Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Usage|Sweets Usage]], not about [[ | :: Sorry, but the ticket was about [[Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Usage|Sweets Usage]], not about [[Sweets Distribution]]. [[User:Alsroot|alsroot]] 01:18, 3 December 2011 (EST) | ||
::: OK, good example of the confusion possible. From [[Platform Team/Sweets]], the assumption is made that, | ::: OK, good example of the confusion possible. From [[Platform Team/Sweets]], the assumption is made that, | ||
::: "It is important to stimulate users into becoming doers—to modify existing activities, and to share the results of their experiments with other people, viz., a distribution method should handle different variants of the same project."; | ::: "It is important to stimulate users into becoming doers—to modify existing activities, and to share the results of their experiments with other people, viz., a distribution method should handle different variants of the same project."; | ||
| Line 17: | Line 17: | ||
*Here is my log for fedora 16 gnome3-shell install of sweets-sugar: | *Here is my log for fedora 16 gnome3-shell install of sweets-sugar: | ||
::http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Platform_Team/Guide/Sugar_via_Sweets#Installing_sweets-sugar_in_Fedora-16_gnome3-shell -- [[User:Satellit|satellit_]] 8:03 3 December 2011 (PST) | ::http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Platform_Team/Guide/Sugar_via_Sweets#Installing_sweets-sugar_in_Fedora-16_gnome3-shell -- [[User:Satellit|satellit_]] 8:03 3 December 2011 (PST) | ||
---- | |||
''My introduction to the Package Management System might be a brief summary of these pages:'' | |||
These pages could be very roughly classified as | |||
<span style="background:#ccffcc;">overview</span>, | |||
<span style="background:#cce5ff;">conceptual</span>, | |||
<span style="background:#ffccfe;">technical</span>, | |||
or <span style="background:#ffe6cc;">Let's try it</span> | |||
<span style="background:#ffe6cc;">Introductory page, Sweets is a [[Platform Team/Package Management System|Package Management System]]</span> | |||
<span style="background:#ccffcc;">[[Platform_Team/Infrastructure|Infrastructure]]</span> This page describes the infrastructure map that the Platform Team provides. | |||
<span style="background:#ffccfe;">[[Platform Team/Package Management System/Architecture|Architecture]]</span> This guide covers basic Sweets concepts. | |||
<span style="background:#ffccfe;">[[Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Packaging|Sweets Packaging]]</span>,This guide describes how to prepare software projects for sweets. | |||
<span style="background:#cce5ff;">[[Platform Team/Glossary|Sweets glossary]]</span> Some useful terms. | |||
This guide describes how to run Sugar using Sugar via sweets | |||
<span style="background:#ffe6cc;">[[Platform_Team/Guide/Sugar_via_Sweets|Sugar via Sweets]]</span> | |||
This guide describes how to use Sugar Labs' Packaging Management System | |||
<span style="background:#ffe6cc;">[[Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Usage|Sweets Usage]].</span> | |||
<span style="background:#cce5ff;">[[Platform_Team/Harmonic_Distribution|Harmonic_Distribution]]</span> is a systems approach to provide all software tools. | |||
This page, and all its sub-pages, covers implementation of | |||
<span style="background:#cce5ff;">[[Sugar Network]]</span>. | |||
These are overview and usage pages regarding the | |||
<span style="background:#ffe6cc;">[[Sweets Distribution]]</span>. | |||
These are technical pages regarding the | |||
<span style="background:#ffccfe;">[[Platform_Team/Sweets_Distribution|Sweets Distribution]]</span>. | |||
: But that might not actually cover in detail, Sweets Usage. I do see a need to provide further entry level explanation of the difference between sweets and sweets distribution. | |||
:: I would put in a suggestion for the eventual removal of duplication between [[Platform_Team/Guide/Sugar_via_Sweets|Sugar via Sweets]] and [[Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Usage|Sweets Usage]]. --[[User:Inkyfingers|Inkyfingers]] 05:16, 28 June 2012 (EDT) | |||
== Target Audience == | == Target Audience == | ||
| Line 27: | Line 67: | ||
'''Benefits''' - What are the benefits? | '''Benefits''' - What are the benefits? | ||
:I find [[ | :I find [[Sweets Distribution]] easier to use for Ubuntu' and its Derivatives (Adding an additional Repository to synaptic) as the packages are pre-configured, ready to use. | ||
::[[Platform_Team/Guide/Sugar_via_Sweets|Sugar via Sweets]] has a wider applicability to linux OS's but requires a more experienced user. [[User:Satellit|satellit_]] 7:17 4 December 2011 (PST) | ::[[Platform_Team/Guide/Sugar_via_Sweets|Sugar via Sweets]] has a wider applicability to linux OS's but requires a more experienced user. [[User:Satellit|satellit_]] 7:17 4 December 2011 (PST) | ||
::: " For now, sweets knows only enough about the glucose dependencies to install them from native packages in Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, openSUSE, and Gentoo." | ::: " For now, sweets knows only enough about the glucose dependencies to install them from native packages in Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, openSUSE, and Gentoo." | ||