[Sugar-devel] [Dextrose] Check for required activity deps before installing

[Aleksey Lim]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 07:49:38PM -0500, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 14:32 +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote: 
> > It is a mimic of sweets' requires tag that will be used only for sugar
> > dependency. Full functional dependency tracking will come with sweets support
> > implementation in the shell.
> 
> /me likes this
> 
> Let's merge it into dextrose2 now to allow early testing by activity
> authors.
> 
> 
> > Dependency check will happen only for installation. Since in most cases
> > it should be enough and launching code is scattered among the shell code
> > (porting the 0.90 patch that fixes it, might be invasive for dx-2).
> 
> I think it's good enough for now. It's already a huge improvement over
> the current situation.
> 
> 
> By the way, where is the activity.info documentation in our wiki? After
> searching a lot, I found this page:
> 
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Almanac/Activity_Bundles
> 
> Shouldn't we move it under the Activity_Team hierarchy?

In fact, activity.info is a subset of recipe specification
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Recipe_Specification#.5BActivity.5D

> 
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-- 
Aleksey