Olpc3 vs Joyride

Jim Gettys jg at laptop.org
Mon Jun 30 11:05:47 EDT 2008


I think Victor would be very happy to have a single spec file that
covers both the subset and full csound builds....
                          - Jim


On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 09:53 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> 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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