[Sugar-devel] A small request.

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> C. Scott Ananian wrote:
>> OK, thanks.  The existing updater works fine in Debian; I don't know
>> if it was ever pushed into koji, but it is certainly compatible with
>> Fedora.  If anyone wants to develop a new updater, I can probably
>> offer some advice.  Using an explicit update_url field in the activity
>> is recommended for activities packaged with the current updater; the
>> OLPC wiki default was only ever intended to be a bridge for legacy
>> apps, not a recommended practice.  I prefer email for initial
>> discussions of updater ideas: 9am isn't a great meeting time for me.
>
> How did the Debian package cope with the dependency on olpc-update?
> I thought we had to break that and integrate the relevant support
> files in the control panel module.

It's not olpc-update, it's olpc-contents.  And I packaged it for
Debian.  It's in the source.

> Another issue is how we integrate the updater with addons.sl.o.
> Because the OLPC microformat is trivial, it might be easy to modify
> the remora's html output to be compatible with it.  Mick, Tomeu and
> David, who have had a closer look at the code, might want to comment.

That does seem reasonable.

> With a web UI similar to addons.mozilla.org, the local UI for browsing
> new activities becomes redundant and could be culled, reducing the
> control panel module to a mere updater.  I guess this is for the UI
> designers to decide.

There is no UI for browsing new activities. The updater is just an *updater*.
  --scott

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