[sugar] How to handle application protocols

[Noah Kantrowitz]

In theory (not sure how implemented this is), when one activity has a  
higher version, its code should be automatically pushed to the other  
machines.

--Noah

On Oct 9, 2007, at 4:17 PM, J.M. Maurer wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 16:05 -0400, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
>> Change your application version number in the .activity file?
>
> Well ofcourse.
>
> But consider this: 3 kids update their Write activity (including the
> underlying libabiword), which will also upgrade their AbiCollab
> protocol. 7 others don't upgrade yet, and continue to use their old
> version of Write/libabiword.
> Now kids from both groups will will see each other on the mesh  
> view, see
> shared documents, but when they try to collaborate, it will 'silently
> fail'.
>
> That doesn't look user-friendly to me.
>
>   Marc
>
>
>
>> --Noah
>>
>> On Oct 9, 2007, at 3:53 PM, J.M. Maurer wrote:
>>
>>> While fixing some bugs in AbiCollab, I found a bug that I can  
>>> only fix
>>> by breaking the existing protocol. I can also imagine that this will
>>> happen more in the future (caused by new features, or other unknown
>>> bugs
>>> that might need fixing).
>>>
>>> Do we have any policy on application level protocol changes? At the
>>> moment, a "new" AbiCollab will simple refuse to communicate with an
>>> "old" AbiCollab.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>   Marc
>>>
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