[Etoys] Fwd: [Sugar-devel] Unified Bundles

[Milan Zimmermann]

On April 9, 2009, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On 09.04.2009, at 06:58, Milan Zimmermann wrote:
> > On April 7, 2009, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> > > Begin forwarded message:
> > > > From: Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com>
> > > > Date: 7. April 2009 01:05:09 MESZ
> > > > To: Sugar Devel <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> > > > Subject: [Sugar-devel] Unified Bundles
> > > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > Aleksey finally prodded me (by creating an empty page and
> >
> > pointing me
> >
> > > > at it) into writing down my idea for Unified bundles which
> >
> > merges .xol
> >
> > > > and .xo files together.
> > > >
> > > > It diverged somewhat into a plan to recast activities which do not
> > > > support actually creating anything as "Content viewers". Those are
> > > > ones like Read, Read Etexts, View Slides, Jukebox, etc.
> > > >
> > > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Unified_Bundles
> >
> > Actually, I have a question. Paste from the link above:
> > ==========
> > Etoys-based Unified content bundles are made up of a Squeak script
> > or Etoys project. The activity.info file contains the line:
> > exec sugar-etoys-activity [options] <squeak_file>
> > =====
> > In the freecell-1.xo:
> > exec = FreeCell.sh
> > ======
> > I assume
> > sugar-etoys-activity <==> FreeCell.sh
> > Is the website obsolete? (note the = missing in the website line)
>
> The website is just a proposal, it's not agreed upon, much less
> implemented.

I see, thanks.

>
> In fact the "Unified Bundles" are not really needed for Etoys anyway,
> because our bundles already are very lean and only have a tiny shell
> script (like in the FreeCell case). The proposal IMHO applies only to
> activities that have a significant amount of code in their bundle,
> which should not be duplicated in each "content bundle".

ok,

Thanks, Milan
>
> - Bert -


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