[Sugar-devel] activity.info hosts

[Samuel Klein]

A good point - now's an excellent time to start using it.  it can be used
for a soft interaction -- a warning on installation if the activity might
not be compatible.

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Christoph Derndorfer <
christoph.derndorfer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering whether there were any plans to make use of the "hosts"
> variable in the activity.info files to determine whether an activity runs
> on the specific Sugar installation.
>
> With 0.86 being on the horizont, 0.84 being used on SoaS, 0.82 being widely
> used among the G1G1 community and some deployments and many deployment still
> using pre-0.82 software I think the issue of activity compatibility deserves
> some serious attention. Otherwise this has the potential to create _a lot
> of_ confusion and frustration further down the road.
>
> Not sure what the original plans wrt the technical implemention of this
> feature were but I would assume the harder part of solving this problem is
> spreading the word among activity developers to update their .xo bundles
> accordingly.
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph
>
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