On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 05:09:44PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > 0install looks quite promising to me and > > http://www.osnews.com/story/16956/Decentralised_Installation_Systems > > is good reading about the general issues involved. > > Has anyone here experimented with it? > > Regards, > > Michael
Yeah, I like 0install(or its concept) more and more. In our case it could solve several issues at once: * lack of sugar packages for non-mainstream distros, we could provide 0install sugar packages in "click to install" form for any user * arguable questions about what new dependencies we should add to Sugar Platform(e.g. java, Qt, webkit etc.), if activity uses these non Sugar Platform dependencies, just add add them to your activity as 0install dependencies(or so) * binary blobs in activities, all dependencies will be fetched by 0install we have lightweight .xo bundles and external dependencies could be reused by several activities * dependencies between several activities could make sense in some cases e.g. TamTam's common resources(10M) could be fetched as dependency for TamTam activities(now each activity has separate copy of common resources) If there is no interested in people I'll try it after 0.86 release. -- Aleksey _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel