[Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Please update your activity info files for deprecated fields

[Gary C Martin]

On 20 Feb 2009, at 11:14, Simon Schampijer wrote:

> Dear activity developers,
>
> there are two deprecated fields in the activity.info [1]
>
> 'service_name' is deprecated please use 'bundle-id' instead.
>
> 'class' is deprecated and you should use the 'exec' command instead.  
> The
> reason for the switch is that the exec command follows better the
> general freedesktop standard [2]

Thanks, didn't know about that change in spec... was just about to  
alter my 'class' to 'exec', but before I do, how far back does exec  
support go in Sugar? I don't want to break backwards compatibility for  
current deployments.

Would you recommend I put both class and exec line in the .info file?

--Gary

> The sooner you get this in the better. Deprecated things get dropped  
> at
> some point, latest with the next major release (in this case 1.0) -  
> you
> will be informed again of course.
>
> Thanks,
>    Simon
>
> [1]
> http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Almanac/Activity_Bundles#.info_file_format
> [2]
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-0.9.3.html
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