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[Cassidy James <c@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hrm. Okay. If we could look into this, it'd be great. I'm investigating
getting our apps into USC and this would be the most straight forward. We
could of course also go the Debian route, or try and get it included in
repos the normal way. But this way we could get it in right away and for
12.04.
On Jun 14, 2012 11:28 PM, "Pim Vullers" <pim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I guess that only is the GSettings issue again. But becomes hard with
> things like euclide which is build on top of scratch. Actually it is
> scratch with a specific set of plugins, which in this case would need to
> be loaded from a different location instead of a central directory. That
> would cause the troubles. Actually anything with plugins I guess.
>
> On 06/14/12 21:19, Cassidy James wrote:
> > What about something like, say, Scratch? Is it just a minor tweak in the
> > packaging, or is it a bigger change in the actual code?
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Pim Vullers <pim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:pim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 06/14/12 19:46, Cassidy James wrote:
> >     > Hey everyone,
> >     >
> >     > I've been checking into the requirements for uploading apps to
> >     USC, and
> >     > I came across an interesting bit here:
> >     >
> >     >     In order for your application to be distributed in the Software
> >     >     Centre it must:
> >     >
> >     >       * Be in one, self-contained directory when installed
> >     >
> >     >       * Be able to be installed into the /opt/<package-name>
> >     directory (*)
> >     >
> >     >       * Be executable by all users from
> >     >         the /opt/<package-name> directory (**)
> >     >
> >     >       * Write all configuration settings
> >     >         to ~/.config/<package-name> (This can be one file or a
> >     directory
> >     >         containing multiple configuration files)
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >     (*) Open source, zero-cost apps should be installable
> >     >     to /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/ <http://extras.ubuntu.com/>
> >     <http://extras.ubuntu.com/><package-name>
> >     >     (**) Users only have read and not write privileges to this
> >     directory
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > Would our apps fit these requirements? If not, how much work would
> >     it be
> >     > to make them fit the requirements?
> >
> >     For files this is not much of a problem. This can be achieved by
> setting
> >     the install prefix to /opt/<package-name>/. The issue is GSettings
> >     (these schemes are currently installed in
> /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas).
> >
> >     I don't know if Granite will also be offered through this way. But
> >     libraries might also cause issues. This approach would require apps
> to
> >     bundle custom libraries, or there must be some mechanism to add
> >     /opt/<library-name/lib or so to the library path.
> >
> >     So the major issue is the GSettings schemes. Otherwise I see no
> issues
> >     for small apps. For larger apps it will be harder to achieve.
> >
> >     Pim Vullers
> >
> >
> >
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