On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Martin Langhoff > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What I meant to say is that all the good things we get from a bespoke >> packaging format, we can get from rpm with a few conventions as to the >> directories where things land. > > A couple of additional notes from a private subthread... > > ...there are a few ways to use rpm/yum for unprivileged users > (alternative DB, fakeroot, relocatable pkgs...), and I think we can > use them for this. In fact, we could even build a simplistic rpm > installer in python that handles a subset of what rpm does (hopefully > this is not needed, it'd detract from the idea quite a bit) > > One valid criticism to using rpm - from a Sugar perspective - is that Sugar > won't want to become tied to Fedora/RH. There's a case for thinking > through if we can actually use rpm the way we want on Debian and/or > apt on Fedora. Both rpm and apt are available in old/buggy versions in > the "other" family of distros. > > Using rpm or apt Sugar would getting a bit further away from Windows > (does cygwin carry either?) - a bit less so on OSX (where the fink > toolchain will probably work alright, specially with translation pkgs, > which are by definition "noarch").
Hmm, thinking about this a bit further, how about generating a tar.bz2 with the PO files, with a setup.py file, which can generate a .xot bundle (with MO files), as well as install in a specified location (same in function as the setup.py which comes with activities)? In that way, if someone decides to create a RPM for Fedora (assuming that Fedora goes the language pack way sometime in the future), or a Deb for Ubuntu (Ubuntu already uses a language pack system), they can do it easily (they would have write a spec file though). Does that work ? Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
