[sugar] spreading activity bundle contents across the filesystem?

Jani Monoses jani at ubuntu.com
Thu Mar 13 08:13:20 EDT 2008


Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On Mar 13, 2008, at 8:55 , Jani Monoses wrote:
> 
>> I understand that for security reasons, and unlike on typical unix
>> systems, activities are installed under one directory with all their
>> content included.
> 
> That's pretty much exactly how apps work on OS X.

That's not the kind of typical unix system I meant ;)

> 
>> For emulation of sugar on regular boxes is there a way of scattering  
>> an
>> activity instead of installing it under a single directory? The Debian
>> policy for instance does not permit installing a .so under /usr/share
>> and several activities come with prebuilt shared objects.
>>
>> I wonder if there's a simple enough change like an addition to a
>> sugar-specific search path that would allow this with minimal  
>> disruption?
> 
> I don't think so, since activity authors are free to structure the  
> bundle any way they like. I'd rather suggest installing the bundles  
> in, say, /usr/lib/sugar/activities.

Thanks, I'll look into that.

Jani



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