[Sugar-devel] [Bastien] helpfr.xo does not launch on F11 on XO-1

[Bastien]

Hi Gary,

thanks for the warnings.  

Are the Help/Helpfr activities the only two instances of such
compatibility issue with 0.82 and 0.84 hulahop versions?

If not, what are the other decisions that have been made?


I think the current Help doesn't need to be upgraded, as it contains
instructions for XO and Sugar 0.82.  Maybe after the next flossmanuals
sprint, Help will need a full rewrite - upgrading both the content and
the hulahop engine, and this new version could be released as a separate
Help2.

For Helpfr: the sooner we can have something working for Sugar 0.84 the
better.  No real backward compatibility issue, as Helpfr is meant to be
useful for future deployments (the manual included in the current Helpfr
has been given to our volunteers in Madagascar as a separate .pdf.)

Thanks a lot for the feedback.

Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> writes:

> Hi Bastian,
>
> On 21 Jul 2009, at 15:39, Bastien wrote:
>
>> Hi Sayamindu,
>>
>> thans in advance for your help.
>>
>> The original Help activity repo is here:
>>  http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/help
>>
>> The derived Helpfr activity is here:
>>  http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/helpfr
>>
>> They both rely on the same Browse, and this part of the code need to
>> be updated.  Below is a backtrace as sent by Mikus, would could not
>> run Helpfr on devxo-1.
>>
>> Thanks again!
>
> Just a sanity check. You're aware the new Browse code will not run on
> the old/existing 8.2.x OLPC distros? Basically, to my knowledge, a  lump
> of code called hulahop sits between mozilla code and Browse. New
> releases of mozilla code, required changes hulahop, which caused the
> break in backwards compatibility.
>
> So... My understanding is that if you want Helpfr working on both 8.2.x
> OLPC distros, and the Strawberry SoaS distro, you will need to  make
> available 2 different versions of Helpfr (one for old mozilla +  hulahop
> release, and one for current mozilla + hulahop release).
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
> P.S. Maybe (and with much pain, anguish, and debugging) there's some
> magic way of including both versions of the hulahop library in Browse,
> and 2 sets of glue code in Browse to talk to hulahop, depending on the
> version of mozilla installed in the OS. But that's a big "ouch" and a
> tone of maintenance. Likely a lot simpler providing 2 Helpfr Activites
> via activities.sugarlabs.org for old and new Sugar users.

-- 
 Bastien