Olpc3 vs Joyride

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Monday 30 June 2008, Jim Gettys wrote:
> Dennis:
>
> OLPC csound is an *exact* formal *subset* of full csound-5 built from
> the same sources as csound-5.
>
> It gets rid of tk/tcl dependency we don't want to carry in csound....
>                           - Jim
There are much better ways to achieve that goal.  than what was done.  but its 
too late now.   I'm working on defining some macros in totem right now so we 
can always take the latest fedora spec, change some 0's to 1's  and build a 
much more minimalistic totem that's suitable for us.  What is done is done 
now.

> On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 17:25 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > On Sunday 29 June 2008, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> > > Am 30.06.2008 um 00:05 schrieb Dennis Gilmore:
> > > > On Sunday 29 June 2008, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> > > >> I reanimated my script that shows differences between the latest
> > > >> joyride and candidate builds:
> > > >>
> > > >> http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/olpc3-joyride.html
> > > >>
> > > >> ... and in particular added a section to easily see what packages
> > > >> are in olpc3 and not in joyride, and vice versa.
> > > >>
> > > >> There are not only differences in package versions, but also in
> > > >> which packages are in. I wondered, for example, why csound is
> > > >> missing from joyride ...
> > > >
> > > > a second copy of csound landed in fedora as olpcsound.  it is built
> > > > specifically for olpc  and is in joyride.
> > >
> > > If it was named csound-olpc that would have been more obvious ...
> > >
> > > - Bert -
> >
> > Yes,  first i heard of it was when i was asked to switch out csound and
> > csound- python for olpcsound.   Had i been asked before hand i could have
> > suggested a way that the csound spec could have produced  csound
> > csound-python and csound- olpc.  but what is done is done.  I personally
> > don't like anything being called olpc-foo,  I think we should write code
> > that is useful outside of OLPC, useful to the whole world.  In which case
> >  the naming is really a poor choice.
> >
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-- 
Dennis Gilmore

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