[sugar] Bundle .info change
Yoshiki Ohshima
yoshiki at squeakland.org
Tue Dec 19 16:03:57 EST 2006
Dan,
> Most of this can be achieved already. Grab the build logs, and diff
> them. You'll see additions/removals from the package lists, which will
> alert you to issues like the libGL one. A reasonable suggestion is a
> per-build mail sent to devel at laptop with package additions/removals. We
> should also have somewhere the hard list of libraries that, at a
> minimum, we expect to ship. Anything not on that list could not be
> counted on to be in the images, even _if_ it did slip into a few of them
> at various points. Examples: libGL, perl, emacs, vi, etc.
Sorry to ask this, but where can I find the build logs?
> Ideally, we would have developed the platform for the past 3 years and,
> this past summer, rolled it out with a stability guarantee and
> occasional bugfixes. But that's not the case, and the platform is being
> developed _in parallel_ with the activities that are supposed to run on
> it. That's not particularly easy for anyone, but the alternative is for
> activity developers to wait until next year when OLPC comes out, and
> _then_ start developing. If people want to get a head-start, then there
> is going to be a certain amount of flux and pain; that's the choice.
Well, I don't think I mentioned, asked or suggested that kind of
ideal but unrealistic things.
> OLPC also needs the software to be successful, and to that end, shafting
> activity developers makes no sense. We need to do better here. But
> those of you developing for the platform already have much more input
> and much more technical influence and involvement in the direction OLPC
> takes than if we dropped a ready made platform over the wall.
Thank you!
-- Yoshiki
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