[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] turtle art: 2 instances, no?

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 07.09.2009, at 17:45, Eben Eliason wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Gary C Martin<gary at garycmartin.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> The problem with all this is that Sugar currently treats all versions
>> you "Keep" from an activity as the same activity. You can only have
>> one of the versions active at once, this is what you're seeing when
>
> This is actually another bug. On several of the threads discussing
> versions this came up, and it's clear that there is value to having
> multiple versions of the same activity instance open at once,
> specifically for the purpose of copying elements from an older version
> into a newer one. Revising Sugar to make this possible, regardless of
> when we land version support, would be beneficial.

Not really. That would be adding hacks on top of more hacks.

Until we have versions, separate versions can simply be treated as  
separate instances, because that's what they are. All we need to do is  
clear the activity_id property in the explicitly kept copy.

- Bert -