[maemo-developers] Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

[From: Quim Gil]

ext Attila Csipa wrote:
> To reiterate, my main concern is that it has been said that for various 
> (perfectly understandable) reasons, libraries are NOT to be optified.

I haven't followed all the email from this thread but until yesterday
libraries were thought to be good candidates for the /opt and actually
specific examples for Python or Qt were given.

>> including dependencies."
> 
> You can't really count the size of those, as they might have dependencies of 
> their own, some are parts of the OS, and most of the time you don't know how 
> many other apps will use them (if 100 apps depend on a 400KB package, there 
> might be more ratio to optify it than if it's just one app depending on a 
> 600KB package).

The Application Manager does make a size estimate, I would say useful
enough. Before installing the first Python app all the Python apps are
very thick in the AM. Once you have the Python libraries most of them
are quite thin actually.

In practice, if the maintainers of libraries have done their homework
optifying properly and we still agree with the 500kb rule, I beliebe
this whole /opt thing will affect only a bunch of developers very
conscious about the weight of their software and the problems it might
cause to average users.

-- 
Quim Gil
open source advocate
Maemo Devices @ Nokia