Hi all! Originally, the term "Sweets" meant a kind of Package Management System that was working on top of Zero Install[1], i.e., software was distributing using Zero Install mechanisms. The term "Sweets Distribution" was relating to the same software, at least a part of it, that was distributed using more regular way, native packages, i.e., "Sweets" compatible software projects can be turned into native packages "for free".
The one problem with Zero Install is that it relies on the Internet connectivity, that is the problem since not all Sugar community members have Internet connection all time. After announcing the Sugar Network[2] (the system to share content and be a social network), that is intended to support offline people, it became natural to use Sugar Network to share software instead of Zero Install. So, "Sweets" project evolved to the Sugar Network for cases when there is a need to easy share Sugar Activities within the Sugar community. In this case, there is also Activities Library[3], but Sugar Network will close work with ASLO. Thus, the only meaning of "Sweets" is, for now, "Sweets Distribution", i.e., repositories with native packages[4] to provide base software (Sugar Network should handle all Sugar Activities, though, nothing prevents including any Activities into Sweets Distribution based downstreams). The Glossary was tuned for that case: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Glossary#Platform_Team People who use "sweets" command line utility, might continue using it. When Sugar Network was initially implemented, this utility will be replaced by another one that will do the same work but using Sugar Network. Technically, Zero Install will be still in use but only as a library to solve dependencies tree before launching software on Sugar Network client side. [1] http://0install.net/ [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Network [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Library [4] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sweets_Distribution -- Aleksey _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel