[IAEP] activites known not to either work at all or not on certin platforms

Simon Schampijer simon at schampijer.de
Fri Feb 13 09:52:24 EST 2009


Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 09:10:48AM +0100, Simon Schampijer wrote:
>> Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 07:09:02PM -0500, Luke Faraone wrote:
>>>> [...] we don't have many activities: to this we have two solutions:
>>>>
>>>> * Wait for Debian to get 0.84 and get the autoupdater, which will 
>>>> download the activities to ~
>>> That is a workaround, not a solution.
>>>
>>> Per-user downloading works in 0.82.x too (except for 
>>> non-backwards-compatible activities, but that's not a bug in Debian).
>>>
>>>
>>>> * Package more activities :)
>>> The only solution to too few activities packaged!
>> Fwiw, in Fedora we only package the Fructose activities as rpms. That 
>> is what we agreed at FUDCon. The rest are kept as .xo and installed 
>> using tools like browse currently.
> 
> I see no contradiction: You simply tell that in your opinion[1], when 
> Fructose is packaged then there are no longer too few activities. :-)

Oh sure, you are free to package whatever you want of course.

> I won't stop Luke from packaging the Help activity which I believe isn't 
> officially part of 0.82 Fructose.

I asked a few days ago if we have a maintainer - we have not - hence I 
don't want to include it in Fructose, or in the end I have to do the 
work. The activity situation will be getting easier with the addons I 
suspect.

Cheers,
    Simon


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