Package Honey Activities?

[Gary C Martin]

Hi Bryan,

On 3 Jun 2009, at 20:03, Bryan Kearney wrote:

> Hopefully this will not get in anyone spam folder.... Are we still  
> trying to package honey activities for Fedora? I have an open-review  
> for  paint.. and if the plan is to get them in I am happy to finish  
> it. However, if the plan is to upgrade via .xo I am happy to close  
> it out.

Thanks Bryan, this is such a good question! As an Activity Team co-co- 
ordinator ;-) I'd so, so like to be able to have a clear message here  
for both Activity authors and packagers of Sugar components. Packagers  
have taken Sugar to so many distros in such a short time, and I know  
little of the packagers real needs and distro politic, but it does  
seem that both packagers and Activity authors are currently each doing  
extra steps.

A). If all Activities were distributed as .xo bundles through the  
Sugar platform (such as access to activities.sugarlabs.org), distro  
packagers would only have to worry about keeping the core Sugar and  
it's dependancies up-to date, not all the faster changing stuff.

B). If all Activities were distributed through distros, then Activity  
authors would only need to worry about getting their source bundles to  
distro packagers in the most friendly way. Sugar core would need some  
distro agnostic or configurable user interface for yup/rpm/aptitude  
installing/removing; but would not need to maintain code behind  
something like activities.sugarlabs.org.

We have a foot on each side of this quagmire just now.

Regards,
--Gary

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