[SoaS] Etoys in RC4 SoaS-v7 does not start when jabber is connected. ( f17 release is imminent )

[Walter Bender]

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>>
>> On 28.05.2012, at 15:52, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>>>> SoaS still has the old Etoys version (4.1). Etoys 5 was released along with Sugar 0.96. It is more robust wrt presence service failures.
>>>
>>> it also still needs the sugar-presence-service package which has been obsolete for a long
>>> time.
>>
>>
>> Etoys 5 is no worse than previous versions in that respect. On the contrary, it deals better with presence service deterioration.
>>
>> Re-implementing the presence service takes time, I'm on my own, can't make it happen soon.
>
> I think it's been over 2 years, I might just drop eToys from the build
> because it always causes random issues.

Peter,

I urge you to not drop Etoys. It is one of the most powerful learning
tools we offer. Sugar is greatly diminished without it. Are there open
tickets on these random issues?

regards.

-walter

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