[maemo-developers] Pushing optified Python libs

[From: Niels Breet]

On Fri, December 18, 2009 01:59, Anderson Lizardo wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Mikko Vartiainen <mvartiainen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>> would there be a possibility to push them to Extras forcing an update
>>> in the background?
>>
>> It may be again noted that pushing library updates for end users is
>> practically impossible because Application Manager doesn't update
>> packages which are not in user/* category.
>
> BTW, I tested putting packages in user/hidden category and indeed
> (albeit autobuilder complaining about the unknown category)
> application manager recognizes new versions of packages in that category
> (showing the update notification and allowing to upgrade).

This is bad manner and utterly evil.

User _applications_ should be in user/* categories. (Basically everything
you want the end-user to see and be able to uninstall) Everything else
should never be in user.

Please don't expose end users to the mess of uninstalling python because
they need space, while they still have python apps in their device. This
will only confuse them.

The whole library updating might be painful, but don't misuse the user
categories for this.

The easiest way to update the python libraries for now is to either
promote an application depending (>= the new version) or ping me to
manually push them through.

The advantage of having an app use the new version is that you get testing
of the dependencies too. Yes, updates won't be instant then, but this way
they have the 10 day quarantine too.

>
> Regards,
> --
> Anderson Lizardo
> OpenBossa Labs - INdT
> Manaus - Brazil

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Niels Breet
maemo.org webmaster