[Sugar-devel] activity.info hosts

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 08:35, Samuel Klein<meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Sounds good, someone would like to champion this idea by entering a
feature request?

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Policy

Regards,

Tomeu

> 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
>>
>> --
>> Christoph Derndorfer
>> co-editor, olpcnews
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