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This guide describes how to use Sugar Labs' Packaging Management System to distribute software projects. See also [[Platform_Team/Sweets|introduction page]] and [[Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Usage|Usage guide]].
== Development workflow with sweets ==
During the first launch, sources will be auto-built and kept in internal storage. To make sweets useful for development, checkout developing project sources in sweets:
sweets checkout [''path-to-sources'']
The only thing that is required from sources is having a [[Platform Team/Recipe Specification|sweets.recipe]] spec file for non-activity projects or {{Code|activity/activity.info}} (that conforms to the same spec) for activities. All sweets for Glucose components are located in the http://git.sugarlabs.org/sdk project.
After being checked out, these sources might be launched using {{Code|<nowiki>http://</nowiki>sweets.sugarlabs.org/''sweet-value-from-sweets.recipe''}} or just mentioning a sweet value:
sweets ''sweet''
For glucose projects, you can find ready-to-use and always-rebased-to-upstream projects in the [http://git.sugarlabs.org/sdk SDK] http://git.sugarlabs.org project. For now, there are two branches: {{Code|master}} for recent trunk, and {{Code|master-0.88}} for 0.88 code based on Dextrose-2 patches.
Checked out projects will be built according to the {{Code|[Build]}} section commands in the {{Code|sweets.recipe}} files. In general, for autotools-based projects, there is no further need for the {{Code|sweets}} command, just run {{Code|make install}} to build current sources and {{Code|make install them}} them to the directory that was specified by {{Code|sweets}} in the configure stage. For glucose projects, there is no need even in calling the {{Code|make}} command (python code will be reused from its original place, see {{Code|binding}} options in [[Platform Team/Recipe Specification|sweets.recipe]] files), just change the code and restart sugar.
== Feedback ==
* [http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/newticket?component=sweets Submit] your bug report.
* Ask your question on IRC channels, [irc://irc.freenode.net/sugar #sugar] (not logged) or [irc://irc.freenode.net/sugar-newbies #sugar-newbies] (logged).
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== Writing recipe files ==
== Writing recipe files ==
Keep all build-time files in the runtime package.
Keep all build-time files in the runtime package.
== Introduction ==
== Introduction ==