On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Bernie Innocenti <ber...@codewiz.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 13:00 +1100, James Cameron wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 10:20:11PM -0300, Bernie Innocenti wrote: >> > Meanwhile, distros are repackaging our xo bundles into native rpms and >> > debs... Are we sure we couldn't just sit and let the distros do their >> > job? >> >> Adds to the latency between writing code and having it used. >> >> Distribution policies, while they are well meaning and good for >> distributions, also increase the effort required. > > Indeed, this would be a problem. But I see two possible solutions: > > (1) add a sugar repository besides those provided by the upstream > distro; > > (2) become co-maintainers of the packages to issue updates whenever we > like. > > If Sugar activities are used only by Sugar, we can set our own policies. > The KDE people have a lot of autonomy within Fedora and Ubuntu. They > have been known to ship new mayor versions of their desktop disguised as > stability updates :-)
I am not sure that Sugar activities are always strictly Sugar only. Etoys and Turtle Art being examples of activities that have a life outside of Sugar and within Sugar. -walter > -- > // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ > \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > SLOBs mailing list > sl...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/slobs > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
