On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote: > Bernie Innocenti wrote: >> What could be achieved with the .xo bundles that couldn't be achieved >> with an rpm? > > Let's not talk about .xo. ".xo" is just the JAR bundle format. > > What can you do with JAR that you can't do with RPM? > > 1. Produce them easily on any platform. > 2. Tell the unpacked manifest at a glance without unpacking.
I have possible solutions to both those problems, > 3. Be sure that no untrusted code needs to be run to perform the > installation. > > There are many more things, mostly related to the dramatic simplicity of JAR. > > I don't understand how switching bundle formats for Activities would win > us anything. It the short term it doesn't. In the long term with the XO-2 running on a completely different architecture there are a lot of wins for something like rpm and a lot of down sides to a basic system like simple bundles mainly when it includes binary code. Peter _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
