Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] addons.sugarlabs.org is starting to work

2009-02-20 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 07:53, Elena of Valhalla elena.valha...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Oh, also users can review addons and rate then. But the reviews may be in languages that another user isn't able to read: having some

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] addons.sugarlabs.org is starting to work

2009-02-19 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 08:56:41PM -0500, Luke Faraone wrote: Since dependancy installation is not something most children can do, If we reach that point, we've already failed (IMO). CU Sascha -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] addons.sugarlabs.org is starting to work

2009-02-19 Thread Luke Faraone
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote:On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 08:56:41PM -0500, Luke Faraone wrote: Since dependancy installation is not something most children can do, If we reach that point, we've already failed (IMO).I meant from an

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] addons.sugarlabs.org is starting to work

2009-02-19 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 08:42:16AM -0500, Luke Faraone wrote: Since dependancy installation is not something most children can do, If we reach that point, we've already failed (IMO). I meant from an administrative perspective. -v, please? CU Sascha -- http://sascha.silbe.org/

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] addons.sugarlabs.org is starting to work

2009-02-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 18:18, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote: How does the Mozilla add-on functionality decide if there is a version or platform conflict for browser add-ons? it must be a piece of the browser that does this via some interaction with data on the server. Shouldn't

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] addons.sugarlabs.org is starting to work

2009-02-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 18:23, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 18:18, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote: How does the Mozilla add-on functionality decide if there is a version or platform conflict for browser add-ons? it must be a piece of the browser

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] addons.sugarlabs.org is starting to work

2009-02-19 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
How does the Mozilla add-on functionality decide if there is a version or platform conflict for browser add-ons? it must be a piece of the browser that does this via some interaction with data on the server. Shouldn't there be a similar process here? It is frustrating to download something

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] addons.sugarlabs.org is starting to work

2009-02-19 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
After looking around I still can't find an automatic way to determine which distribution/packaging universe a machine is in. /etc/*version gives a somewhat useful but somewhat lying answer on my Ubuntu platform. It seems an obvious thing to have uname report, but no go. What have I missed? On

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] addons.sugarlabs.org is starting to work

2009-02-19 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote: After looking around I still can't find an automatic way to determine which distribution/packaging universe a machine is in. /etc/*version gives a somewhat useful but somewhat lying answer on my Ubuntu platform. It

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] addons.sugarlabs.org is starting to work

2009-02-18 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Why not provide a dependency declaration in the activity file which can be checked when the activity is installed? It could inform the user that a particular package or library was needed. I understand that different distros may package the dependencies differently, but it wouldn't be so bad if

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] addons.sugarlabs.org is starting to work

2009-02-18 Thread Simon Schampijer
Luke Faraone wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote: Why not provide a dependency declaration in the activity file which can be checked when the activity is installed? It could inform the user that a particular package or library was needed. I