[MeeGo-dev] Meego spec - for comment

[Alexey Khoroshilov]

On 09/08/2010 06:43 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Em Quarta-feira 08 Setembro 2010, às 15:35:33, Wichmann, Mats D escreveu:
>    
>> By the way, an area I'm really looking for help on
>> is the one on WRT (Web RunTime)... been kind of told
>> that's going to be a part of 1.1, and the spec
>> should say something about WRT apps so they don't
>> look like they're prohibited, but I don't have any
>> further info.
>>      
> Well, WRT apps aren't packaged as .rpms, but as a special format. They need an
> interpreter to be installed, just like Python and Perl, except it's based on
> QtWebKit.
>
>    
 From unification point of view, packaging WRT apps as .rpms is a good 
thing, since it makes handling WRT apps similar to handling any other 
apps (e.g. perl, python) across all the system.

What are the disadvantages of this approach?

Alexey Khoroshilov,
ISPRAS / Linux Foundation