[Sugar-devel] A small request.

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Ties Stuij <cjstuij at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:23 AM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Martin Langhoff
>> <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> So this depends on a simple service-announcement scheme. I'll sidestep
>>> the how of it, and say:
>>>
>>> When Sugar knows that there is a local "activity install/update"
>>> server, then the activity updater it _must_ try against the local
>>> service first.
>>
>> I still believe the proper way to do this is to have a local offline
>> cache.  The protocol was explicitly designed to be easily cacheable.
>>
>> But it probably wouldn't be hard to add an "override URL" to the
>> current lookup routine, which is always checked first.  You'd have to
>> add the activity id somehow to generate the full url.  You could set a
>> the override URL in the sugar configuration.  I don't think this is
>> "the right thing" (why are we still having trouble getting caching
>> working right?) but (as Michael suggested in the initial mail on this
>> thread) I'm perfectly happy supporting "more than one way to do it" if
>> someone thinks this will help a specific deployment.
>>  --scott
>
> Huh? Well it depends on what you guys want to accomplish I guess, and
> C. Scott wrote the code I believe, but as I understand it, this
> functionality is already present. In any case if you supply an
> /etc/olpc-update/activitiy-groups file pointing to your local
> schoolserver, it will override the default url and update without any
> qualms. I just tested this just to be sure, without
> internet-connection, and it went swimmingly.
>
> As for the url supplied by the activity itself, It's my opinion that
> it shouldn't be used at all. As per my entry in the activity update
> thread.

By chosing whether to use pinning, the administrator has the option of
"not using the url supplied by the activity itself".  Otherwise I
agree completely.
 --scott

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