[Sugar-devel] activity updater

[Bernie Innocenti]

El Sun, 13-06-2010 a las 20:55 +0100, Gary C Martin escribió:
> OK, not strictly a patch but attached is an updated version of
> the currently malformed svg module-updater icon that's not
> drawing correctly in F13. Not sure who this needs to get to

> (could only find it in Bernie's old depreciated software
> update git rep). It should live in the filesystem at:
> 
> 	/usr/share/sugar/data/icons/module-updater.svg

There are two updaters: the old one written by C.Scott, which is the one
in my obsolete repo and Fedora packages, and a new one written from
scratch by DFarning for ASLO, which lives in the sugar repository.

For the F11-0.88, we have a dilemma: the new updater is missing some
crucial features that deployments were relying upon.

Daniel Drake and I discussed possible solutions when he visited
Paraguay. There are two equally acceptable possibilities:

1) is adding the missing features to the new codebase, which shouldn't
be too hard but needs someone to do it by mid-July maximum. Anyone
available?

2) The other possibility is adding the OLPC microformat support to ASLO
and reverting to the old updater, which would mean less developer time
but reintroduces the dependency on bitfrost which we'd rather keep away
from the Sugar codebase.

Or even a combination of the two. The new query protocol is very slow,
so we might want to teach ASLO about the microformat anyway. When I
checked the php code with Daniel, it seemed very easy to do.

Alsroot and I discussed the possibility to add .xol support to ASLO.
While we agree that ASLO isn't a very good fit for static content, we're
going to support .xol for the utilitarian purpose of making the updater
work in F11-0.88.

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