[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Activity version compatibility

[Bert Freudenberg]

(moving to devel list)

I thought that's what host_version is for?

- Bert -

On 28.09.2009, at 02:40, Wade Brainerd wrote:

> Tentative patches posted to http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1442.
>
> An Alert when attempting to install the .xo bundle would be really  
> nice, but this at least prevents the activity from appearing in the  
> list.  It also adds the raw data, which could be displayed in the  
> bundle's metadata.
>
> -Wade
>
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> This might be a good time to introduce an optional  
> "sugar_version=..." field into activity.info, so we can display a  
> human readable error message when this mistake happens.  The  
> activity will not launch unless Sugar's version is greater than or  
> equal to the activity.info field.  Most activities will not need it,  
> but in case of using non-backwards compatible APIs it will be handy.
>
> Is this too big a change to patch 0.84 and 0.86 with?  It will take  
> at least two releases before it can have any real benefit.
>
> Regards,
> -Wade
>
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Gary C Martin  
> <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> Hi Gerald,
>
> Many thanks for the feedback.
>
> On 27 Sep 2009, at 02:52, Gerald Ardito wrote:
>
> > Gary,
> >
> > This image came from Caroline Meeks at Solution Grove. It came as
> > part of a version of SOAS that she put together for me.
> >
> > Gerald
>
> OK, looks like a SoaS build mistake.
>
> Caroline, just a quick ping. Checking activities.sugarlabs.org, it
> tells me Write-63 was the last version compatible with Sugar 0.84.x. I
> believe Aleksey started working on the new 0.85.x toolbar code as of
> version 64, breaking compatibility with earlier versions of Sugar:
>
>        http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addons/versions/ 
> 4201
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
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