On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 20:28, Gary C Martin<g...@garycmartin.com> wrote: > On 15 Jul 2009, at 14:22, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > >> 2009/7/14 Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayami...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Sascha >>> Silbe<sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 06:10:12PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: >>>> >>>>> Since the version of pywebkitgtk shipped in both Fedora >>>>> and Ubuntu are way behind the latest release, I plan to ship that with >>>>> the activity bundle for now >>>> >>>> That will most likely break on any non-x86 architecture, potentially on >>>> i386 >>>> or amd64 as well (depending on what you ship). >>> >>> Ah yes - I plan to drop this as soon as the distros update the >>> pywebkitgtk. Right now I plan the code to check for system install of >>> pywebkitgtk, and if not found, load the appropriate module for x86 >>> (32bit or 64bit). I plan to attempt to build for PPC as well. >> >> Aleksey has already been doing this in several activities, I think it >> would be very interesting if the Activity Team could come with a >> recommendation and perhaps with some tools to make it easier for >> activity authors. > > FWIW, this is way outside my expertise and pain threshold. > > For my own Activities I've been careful to go 100% Python, and avoid, where > possible, getting involved with any Activities that contain any binary > stuff. Happy to use binary libs that are part of the official platform, but > that's my threshold.
I think that's actually a quite good recommendation ;) Another is that if you need to include binary stuff for whatever reason, that you have a long term plan in which your activity won't have to ship a binary blob any more, for example by adding the needed API to an existing library, etc. Regards, Tomeu > Regards, > --Gary > > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel