[Sugar-devel] sugar-update-control.aslo ready for testing

[David Farning]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:04 AM, Tomeu Vizoso<tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 16:10, David Farning<dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>> Another pre-release of sugar-update-control.aslo is ready for testing.
>>  It is now available at
>> http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-update-control/repos/aslo-clone
>> .
>
> Just tried it, congratulations on the fine work!
>
>> Fixes include :
>> GUI works correctly via control panel.
>> Finds activities via SUGAR_PATH.  (if SUGAR_PATH is set correctly  it
>> _should_ on SOAS but, I have not tested it yet)
>
> I wouldn't access directly the fs to check for available activities.
> There's already code in the shell that deals with this:
>
> http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/repos/mainline/blobs/master/src/jarabe/model/bundleregistry.py
>
> There's also code for updating, installing, etc.

Ok thanks, I was not sure of the consequences of _not_ using the
bitfrost python modules for pulling activity related information.

I'll look at bundleregistry.py today.

>> Using client side updates provided by alsroot[1], will grab the
>> correct versions of activities for the installed version of Sugar.
>>
>> TODO:
>> By default, GUI is populated with information on all corresponding
>> activities on ASLO not just the valid update.  (You can manually
>> select the updates you want)
>>
>> Please test so we can see about adding it as a feature to .86:)
>
> Will be awesome to have the updater working on 0.86, but note that
> sugar-update-control isn't part of Sugar as of yet. See about new
> module proposals here:
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Release
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Release/Roadmap
>
> One of the consequences of this is that distro packagers will need to
> be prompted specifically about packaging sugar-update-control until it
> is part of Glucose.

Added incomplete feature tracker at
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/SugarUpdateControl.ASLO .

david

> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
>> david
>>
>> 1. checkout
>> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/services/update.php?id=org.laptop.WebActivity&appVersion=0.82
>> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/services/update.php?id=org.laptop.WebActivity&appVersion=0.84
>> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/services/update.php?id=org.laptop.WebActivity&appVersion=0.86
>> aloroot rocks!
>>
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