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

[Simon Schampijer]

Gary C Martin wrote:
> 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

Good point Gary! We are doing fine in this regard. 0.82 will work and 
previous versions as well, when looking at the timestamps when this was 
put in.

Thanks,
    Simon

[erikos at beet sugar-toolkit]$ git-blame -L 143,169 
src/sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py
f377d6e5 sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py (Dan Winship          2007-09-20 
12:20:21 -0400 143)
6073a396 sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py (Marco Pesenti Gritti 2007-10-09 
13:15:06 +0200 144)         if cp.has_option(section, 'bundle_id'):
6073a396 sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py (Marco Pesenti Gritti 2007-10-09 
13:15:06 +0200 145)             self._bundle_id = cp.get(section, '
6073a396 sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py (Marco Pesenti Gritti 2007-10-09 
13:15:06 +0200 146)         # FIXME deprecated
6073a396 sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py (Marco Pesenti Gritti 2007-10-09 
13:15:06 +0200 147)         elif cp.has_option(section, 'service_na
6073a396 sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py (Marco Pesenti Gritti 2007-10-09 
13:15:06 +0200 148)             self._bundle_id = cp.get(section, '
f377d6e5 sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py (Dan Winship          2007-09-20 
12:20:21 -0400 149)         else:
f377d6e5 sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py (Dan Winship          2007-09-20 
12:20:21 -0400 150)             raise MalformedBundleException(
6073a396 sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py (Marco Pesenti Gritti 2007-10-09 
13:15:06 +0200 151)                 'Activity bundle %s does not sp
f377d6e5 sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py (Dan Winship          2007-09-20 
12:20:21 -0400 152)                 self._path)
f377d6e5 sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py (Dan Winship          2007-09-20 
12:20:21 -0400 153)
f377d6e5 sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py (Dan Winship          2007-09-20 
12:20:21 -0400 154)         if cp.has_option(section, 'name'):
f377d6e5 sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py (Dan Winship          2007-09-20 
12:20:21 -0400 155)             self._name = cp.get(section, 'name'
f377d6e5 sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py (Dan Winship          2007-09-20 
12:20:21 -0400 156)         else:
f377d6e5 sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py (Dan Winship          2007-09-20 
12:20:21 -0400 157)             raise MalformedBundleException(
f377d6e5 sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py (Dan Winship          2007-09-20 
12:20:21 -0400 158)                 'Activity bundle %s does not sp
f377d6e5 sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py (Dan Winship          2007-09-20 
12:20:21 -0400 159)
6ebe910e sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py (Marco Pesenti Gritti 2007-10-08 
14:56:12 +0200 160)         # FIXME class is deprecated
f377d6e5 sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py (Dan Winship          2007-09-20 
12:20:21 -0400 161)         if cp.has_option(section, 'class'):
f377d6e5 sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py (Dan Winship          2007-09-20 
12:20:21 -0400 162)             self.activity_class = cp.get(sectio
f377d6e5 sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py (Dan Winship          2007-09-20 
12:20:21 -0400 163)         elif cp.has_option(section, 'exec'):
f377d6e5 sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py (Dan Winship          2007-09-20 
12:20:21 -0400 164)             self.bundle_exec = cp.get(section,
f377d6e5 sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py (Dan Winship          2007-09-20 
12:20:21 -0400 165)         else:
f377d6e5 sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py (Dan Winship          2007-09-20 
12:20:21 -0400 166)             raise MalformedBundleException(
f377d6e5 sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py (Dan Winship          2007-09-20 
12:20:21 -0400 167)                 'Activity bundle %s must specif
f377d6e5 sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py (Dan Winship          2007-09-20 
12:20:21 -0400 168)                 self._path)
f377d6e5 sugar/bundle/activitybundle.py (Dan Winship          2007-09-20 
12:20:21 -0400 169)