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 wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Tomeu Vizoso 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 easily localizable property to show is pr

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

2009-02-19 Thread Elena of Valhalla
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Tomeu Vizoso 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 easily localizable property to show is probably essential. Anyway, +1 on the idea that activities should

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

2009-02-19 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:58:49AM -0800, Carol Farlow Lerche 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 l

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 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 seems > an obv

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 T

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

2009-02-19 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Carol Farlow Lerche 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 > there be

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 wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 18:18, Carol Farlow Lerche 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 inter

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 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 > there be a s

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 (whic

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

2009-02-19 Thread Wade Brainerd
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > A long time ago, when using bundles was decided as necessary, the idea > was that there would be something called the "Sugar platform" that > would specify every component that an activity author can rely on > being available for their activi

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/ http://www.inf

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 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 administrative perspective.  -- Luke Far

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 signatur

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

2009-02-19 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 07:36:18PM -0500, Luke Faraone wrote: The *ideal* method would be to use a standard packaging method long term, ie .deb (which I'm partial to) or RPM. (both of these can be converted from and to each other with alien) What exactly are you refering to when you say .deb /

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 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 understand

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

2009-02-18 Thread Luke Faraone
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche 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 understand that different > distros ma

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 t

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

2009-02-18 Thread Luke Faraone
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Aleksey Lim wrote: > What will happen if someone download TamTam/StoryBuilder/etc, > and unfortunately hasn't csound/pygame/etc installed? > > One possible decision: > we could create meta package w/ frequently used dependencies, > like csound/olpcsound, pygames e