[OLPC Security] SUGAR_BUNDLE_PATH and rainbow

[Bert Freudenberg]

Yes, SBP is better. If d.l.o was up I could point to the discussion  
for this.

- Bert -

On Nov 7, 2007, at 15:58 , Michael Stone wrote:

> Bert,
>
> It doesn't _have_ to change; if people generally prefer to be  
> started in
> SUGAR_BUNDLE_PATH (rather than in SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT) then we can
> easily accomodate them.
>
> Is starting in SBP better, then?
>
> Michael
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 01:12:28PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 7, 2007, at 4:51 , Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
>>>
>>> Michael Stone wrote:
>>>>> I note that Clock doesn't work at all (Stays in "Starting..."
>>>>> forever),
>>>>
>>>> If you look at /home/olpc/.sugar/default/logs/shell.log you'll see
>>>> that
>>>> Clock is crashing during startup trying to find 'clock.svg'.
>>>
>>> Heads up to Activity developers:  this is because Activities can no
>>> longer
>>> assume that they are started in the $SUGAR_BUNDLE_PATH directory.
>>
>> Ugh. Why? The reason for having $SUGAR_BUNDLE_PATH be the Activity's
>> cwd is to make it easy for developers to access resources in the
>> bundle with relative path names. Why would that need to change under
>> rainbow?!
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
>>