Platform Team/Package Management System

Summary

Sweets is a Package Management System based on 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 ~/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 these pages:

• Sweets Usage guide.