Audio sample library needed - really - how to share data among activities

[ethrop]

Presently, activities wanting to share audio resources cannot do so through a shared directory. Containerizing activities may actually agravate that situation but I am presuming this can and will be fixed regardless. An activity supplying a resource for its own private use when the resource is of general use leads to the wasteful duplication of data. This was briefly discussed with a number of developers in the recent and distant past.

For TamTam, this will be a blocker starting with Trial-3.

[jg]

Audio sample library component created. Assigned to ethrop.

[jg]

Splitting TamTam is currently blocked by our inability to share data among activities.

Defining how to do this fundamental operation is now blocking their work.

This is just the first of many examples that will come up.

Please get this packaging/dependency issue solved; heads in the sand over the topic is not a viable answer.

[marco]

Not having dependencies in activity bundles was an explicit design decision. I'm not sure it should be revised (it has obvious advantages) and I don't think we have time to revise it for Gen1 anyway.

The TamTam problem can be solved by providing a system audio library which will be useful to a lot of activities. When other cases will come up, we will figure out the best solution for those. Let's not overengineer stuff in Gen1.

[marco]

Reassigning to J5, I think he have been discussing with the tamtam guys on how to get this into the images.

[jg]

Reassigning to Dennis to handle when the sample library is ready.