SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

[Ben Wiley Sittler]

I think, then, that I would rather just ship it as an activity bundle
for "Sugar+Java or Sugar+OpenJDK", since the versioning issues (which
OpenJDK version should I use, exactly?), licensing issues (GPLv2 &
GPLv2+classpath-exception for OpenJDK vs. GPLv3 for SarynPaint,)
packaging unknowns (how does one run OpenJDK from a subdirectory,
exactly?), and bloat make bundling a JRE inside the .xo ridiculously
impractical. I'm halfway tempted to try to subset OpenJDK for this (to
reduce bloat), but that seems like an even bigger nightmare.

On 2009-08-29, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 07:29, Ben Wiley Sittler<bsittler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> A friend of mine wrote a hand/eye coordination game called SarynPaint
>> and recently released the source code. SarynPaint is written in Java,
>> so you'll need to install OpenJDK to use it. I just checked in minimal
>> support for launching it from Sugar and rolled a .xo activity bundle
>> file.
>>
>> The project: http://sarynpaint.googlecode.com/
>>
>> The activity bundle file:
>> http://sarynpaint.googlecode.com/files/sarynpaint-1.xo
>>
>> How to get OpenJDK:
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Java#Installing_OpenJDK_Java
>>
>> I haven't been able to test that .xo link on an actual OLPC yet, so
>> feel free to pass along bug reports, experiences, etc.
>>
>> So, is there some way I could list the OpenJDK dependency in the
>> activity.info file and have the system offer to download and install
>> OpenJDK if it has not yet been installed?
>
> No, activity bundles are supposed to be self-contained, not depending
> on anything else other than the standard Sugar platform.
>
> As long as Java is not part of the Sugar platform, the JRE will need
> to be bundled inside every activity that uses Java.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
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