[Sugar-devel] ASLO - Activities with 0.82 compatibility

[Walter Bender]

It seems that v56 is not in ASLO. It would be great if it could be
added there and be marked for 0.82. The newer versions should not be
marked for 0.82. Then presumable, autoupdating will do the right
thing?

-walter

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Martin Langhoff
> <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> In exploring what updated activites we can ship in 8.2.2, I found lots
>> of excellent activity updates (THANKS!). I also found that ASLO data
>> is in a few cases over-optimistic in its compatibility claims...
>>
>> The testing I am doing saves me from looking /too/ foolish, but end
>> users will be frustrated if ASLO suggests something that doesn't work
>> on their Sugar.
>>
>> Not a big deal I hope, just a matter of marking the versions as not
>> compatible with 0.82 :-)
>>
>>  - Log 18 -- fails to start, errors out on "import gio". (Which is a
>> Python dep, but I cannot find it on the distros versions that are
>> likely to be shipping 0.82). Last-known-good: v16
>>
>>  - Paint 27 -- shared paint sessions fail to start on the buddy.
>> Last-known-good: v23
>>
>>  - Read 86 -- uses gconf, dies on 'import gconf'. Last-known-good: v56
>
> My apologies wrt Read. The newer versions of Read won't work with 0.82
> - and I think it would be best if v56 is used for 8.2.x releases. v56
> was actually released specifically for 8.2.1 and bundles a thoroughly
> updated evince/libpoppler/djvu stack (I backported the code from F-11
> and included it in the activity bundle itself) and it fixes a number
> of crashers in the underlying evince library for non PDF files (mostly
> with djvu files).
>
> The disadvantage is that EPUB files are not supported in Read v56, but
> I you can use FBReader activity for that instead.
>
> Thanks,
> Sayamindu
>
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> Sayamindu Dasgupta
> [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
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