[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Activity version compatibility

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 05:35, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com> wrote:
> BTW, we should still answer the question of the activity.info field...
>  Seems like there 3 options to me:
> 1) Deprecate host_version in the activity.info spec.  Activity developers
> write code to test for presence non-BC APIs and provide fallbacks (or else
> let activities fail to launch/work).
> 2) Keep host_version as an incrementing number, make activityfactory respect
> it, and bump the Sugar number from 1 to 2 in 0.86.1 to reflect the toolbar
> changes.
> 3) Deprecate host_version, introduce sugar_version which is set to the
> oldest Sugar version number the activity is compatible with.
>
> I'm fine with any of these, let me know and I'll provide the patch.

Ping, I don't have a strong opinion on this, I think activity authors
should take the lead on this one.

Regards,

Tomeu

> -Wade
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 29 Sep 2009, at 14:00, Wade Brainerd wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> I have a prototype patch which fixes the launch window and adds an error
>>> message.  I'll try to get it posted soon.
>>>
>>> Cool :-)
>>>
>>> Ok, a prototype patch is posted at http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1447.
>>>  When an activity fails to start, it immediately displays a "<Name> failed
>>> to start." with a close button.
>>>
>>> If anyone can test it out I would greatly appreciate it.  Also if you
>>> have a theory about the occasional segfault when clicking Close, or know how
>>> to get a traceback when running jhbuild, let me know.
>>
>> Fantastic, looks great, I'm hacking on new Labyrinth toolbars just now so,
>> I will apply this and test it on all the tracebacks I get ;-)
>>
>> Regards,
>> --Gary
>
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