Activity Team/Packaging Ideas: Difference between revisions
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= | = Goal = | ||
Installing activities on every sugarized GNU/Linux distribution(not only XO) | Installing activities on every sugarized GNU/Linux distribution(not only XO) | ||
just by clicking on icon in addons.sugarlabs.org. | just by clicking on icon in addons.sugarlabs.org. | ||
= Problems to solve = | = Problems to solve = | ||
* | * Install proper dependencies. Most activities rely on a standard set of Sugar dependencies like PyGTK, Squeak, GStreamer, and PyGame. But others have special dependencies which need to be installed on the target system before the activity can run. | ||
* | * Install the activity itself. | ||
** | ** Blobs in activities. Some activities (Colors, Oficina, Bounce, WikiBrowse) include compiled code, like executables or Python extension modules. | ||
** | ** Should we build non-pure-python activities while installing, or use binary packages? | ||
** | ** And in general, how to treat a variety of platforms: x86, x86_64 and future ARM, MIPS? | ||
= Proposal schemas = | = Proposal schemas = | ||
== Distro teams should take care | == Distro teams should take care of it == | ||
Pro | Pro | ||
* thats enough for XO [[User:Alsroot|alsroot]] 12:36, 13 January 2009 (UTC) | * thats enough for XO [[User:Alsroot|alsroot]] 12:36, 13 January 2009 (UTC) | ||
* | * Many activities just rely on the standard Sugar dependencies, it's really just a few special ones. | ||
Contra | Contra | ||
* thats not enough for rest of distros <br> each distro team has to work out the same work <br> like inventing theirs own mechanisms to treat activities dependencies etc. [[User:Alsroot|alsroot]] 12:36, 13 January 2009 (UTC) | * thats not enough for rest of distros <br> each distro team has to work out the same work <br> like inventing theirs own mechanisms to treat activities dependencies etc. [[User:Alsroot|alsroot]] 12:36, 13 January 2009 (UTC) | ||
== Invent-own/reuse- | == Invent-own/reuse-existing packaging format == | ||
Pro | Pro | ||
* | * Could possibly come up with a solution that works very well specifically for Sugar. | ||
Contra | Contra | ||
* ... | * A lot of work solving a problem has been solved already on each system. | ||
* Might conflict with the target system's native package manager. | |||
* Package managers tend to present confusing user interfaces to the user. | |||
== Sugar is like a Firefox and activities are like addons == | == Sugar is like a Firefox and activities are like addons == | ||
Pro | Pro | ||
* | * Simplest version, what we have now. | ||
Contra | Contra | ||
* what about variety of possible dependencies, should we pre-install them all ? [[User:Alsroot|alsroot]] 12:36, 13 January 2009 (UTC) | * what about variety of possible dependencies, should we pre-install them all ? [[User:Alsroot|alsroot]] 12:36, 13 January 2009 (UTC) | ||
== Use distro-specific activities installer == | == Use distro-specific activities installer == | ||
This is a kind of [[#Invent-own/reuse-existing packaging format]] packaging format, but it moves the center of gravity to a distro-specific installer from the packaged activity itself. | |||
The activity.info file would include a list of dependency names which come from a predefined list. The distro-specific installer backend would be responsible for parsing the list and installing the correct dependencies. | |||
Pro | Pro | ||
* dependencies in activity could be format in simple way (like 'Require: pygames') and installer should resolve it to proper native package(s); on that way it demands common naming scheme [[User:Alsroot|alsroot]] 12:36, 13 January 2009 (UTC) | * dependencies in activity could be format in simple way (like 'Require: pygames') and installer should resolve it to proper native package(s); on that way it demands common naming scheme [[User:Alsroot|alsroot]] 12:36, 13 January 2009 (UTC) | ||
Contra | Contra | ||
* that says nothing about installing activity itself [[User:Alsroot|alsroot]] 12:36, 13 January 2009 (UTC) | * that says nothing about installing activity itself [[User:Alsroot|alsroot]] 12:36, 13 January 2009 (UTC) | ||
[[Category:Activity]] | [[Category:Activity]] | ||