On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 15:05 +0100, Gary Martin wrote: > Fair enough, I don't have packaging experience in the rest of the > distro world. However it seems like a fail when considered in a Sugar > world view. A teacher with Sugar installed, somewhere off the net, can > potentially take any activity and add their own language. If we start > only shipping the binary locale files you remove that option.
The workflow in all Linux distros is that a user would have to take the source package, make the necessary modifications and rebuild a binary out of it. The source == binary identity is a unique featore of the xo bundle format. It's also unsupportable for most non-trivial applications or applications not written in Python. > > But on Dextrose, all activities come from xo bundles, not distro > > packages. > > Hmm, David suggested differently in his recent email about finding > activity source packages, step 1 was listed as checking to see if > there was already a distro package. I tried to check this on an XO1 I > was just testing "1dx2 Dextrose 2 International" on, unfortunately it > will not connect to a wireless access point so I can't get far with > yum to check (don't have the foo to find what packages were installed > via yum or RPM without getting it online). I think David was referring to Ubuntu Sugar Remix, not Dextrose. USR and SoaS do it the Linux way: all activities are repackaged natively so they can be installed, removed and upgraded consistently with the rest of the system. However, Sugar doesn't provide a PackageKit UI for end-users, which is why we had to stick with xo bundles for Dextrose. > Just to confirm, 1dx2 Dextrose 2 International is missing gettext, and > a number of the activity bundles I looked into were missing locale > directories, I did notice that Labyrinth had a locale directory, but > I'm guessing that may be because you got someone else to add a label > feature and make an official release (something I've been considering > reverting to be honest, but just haven't had the time). I checked a few random bundles and they all seem to have a locale directory alongside the po directory. But anyway, I'm in favor of shipping any developer tools that may be needed to create custom bundles, including gettext. -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
