> -----Original Message----- > From: Crosswalk-dev [mailto:crosswalk-dev-bounces@lists.crosswalk- > project.org] On Behalf Of Leandro Pereira > Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 10:37 AM > To: <crosswalk-dev@lists.crosswalk-project.org> > Subject: [Crosswalk-dev] Should we support installing applications > from an unpacked directory? > > Pedestrians, > > While playing around in the application installation and management > code, I've found out that we could greatily simplify things if we > could > only install packaged applications (be them either XPK or WGT) -- > and > remove the ability to install them from directories. > > I can go forward and make the changes, but I'd like to know if this > is > still a valid use case we should be supporting. Could someone please > enlighten me here?
It would be nice to have them kept as the original package, zip, so all the resources are there, untouched and don't require complex installation steps as extract to the system (which requires >= double-size (if there is no compression) as the ZIP and the extraction would be in the system at the same time. If the ZIP is big or system is under low memory we may have problems -- even if we check if the uncompressed size is <= available size, the system is dynamic and may run into problems during extraction. If we keep the zip intact, it's easier to manage and all we have to do is load app resources from that ZIP. The files we need to extract to make it usable in Tizen is only the icon and insert into pkgmgr registry. _______________________________________________ Crosswalk-dev mailing list Crosswalk-dev@lists.crosswalk-project.org https://lists.crosswalk-project.org/mailman/listinfo/crosswalk-dev
