On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
<bmschwar(a)fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
On 07/06/2010 11:51 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> Ok, I think the requirements for activity bundles could be:
>
> 1) Support multiple CPU architectures
>
> 2) Support multiple distros (and different versions of same distro)
>
> 3) Centralized build cluster (submit one source package, get multiple
> binary packages)
>
> 4) Support inter-bundle dependencies
> (e.g.: GCompris + voices, OOo4Kids + dictionaries)
>
> 5) Support activity <-> OS dependencies (e.g.: espeak for Speak,
> squeak for etoys...)
>
> 6) Work with any programming language (setup.py is python-centric)
>
> 7) Easy to learn for activity writers without too much distro-hacking
> experience
>
>
> These requirements would fit well both rpm and deb, with OpenSUSE Build
> Service or their native build clusters.
I think you are missing an important requirement: installation without
elevated permissions.
PackageKit can already do that. There was a furore around 6 months ago
when someone enabled it by default for Fedora.
Peter