On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 07:06:19PM +0000, Gary C Martin wrote: > Hi Aleksey, > > On 23 Nov 2009, at 18:45, Aleksey Lim wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 07:39:14PM +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsr...@member.fsf.org> > >> wrote: > >>> I've changed this feature a bit, so now its a Zero Install integration[4] > >> > >> Good to see progress on this. Much appreciated. Some questions... > >> > >> - Why is the depcheck happening at "first start" time? Install time > >> seems be more appropriate: install time means there is a src of > >> software, needed deps can be grabbed from the same src if present... > > > > in that case we entirely depend on 0install, so sugar provide just new > > GUI for 0launch(here just for downloading/building dependencies). > > > >> - What happens if the deps are missing? If the user is offline? > > > > activity fails to start but in case of offline, 0install provides some > > options that could be useful for users(0share, 0mirror). > > > >> - What happens when the build fails? > > > > activity just fails, and of course we can add some kind of bugreporting > > feature. > > First up, to be honest, I don't plan to use or involve myself with 0install > for any activities I'm involved with
> (may be if it works invisibly as a worst case fallback)... if you have ready to use 0depend.xml file(for example from another activity which uses the same deps) you as developer should only place it to activity/ directory and for users starting this activity means only having additional downloading progressbar(for the first time). > But, if a deployment/teacher wanted to distribute one (or several) of these > non-Sugar compliant installs on a USB stick for remote class installation, is > it a trivial step for them to put 'the activity' on a stick so it can be > installed without any network access or local server at install time? 0install integration is just an optional addon to activity bundles, you can all time package fat .xos as usual. > Example: Teacher travels from a remote village to an education ministry or > town with internet access once a month. Downloads a selection of new > activities and content from ASLO to their USB stick. Journeys back to their > village and uses the USB stick to install/upgrade each machine, kids also > share the activity .xo bundle from Journal with friends who can't make it to > the school. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Zero_Install_integration#Deploy_0install_packages_from_ASLO_like_a_regular_sugar_activities as an addition, we can support offline mode for such activities (request for downloading all required deps for all such activities by one click). -- Aleksey _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
