[Sugar-devel] Manifests obsolescence in new Sugar versions

[Chris Leonard]

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:39 AM, laurent bernabe <laurent.bernabe at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Ok, I think I've understood :
>> Before, sugar git was unable to manage files correctly without the
>> MANIFEST, but now it is resolved.
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> No. The MANIFEST file was used only at the time of build a activity.
> Now the build is done using the list of files in git if there are a repo,
> or all the files if not.
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> Gonzalo


The MANIFEST (until recently) was also used by the POT regeneration
script from Pootle, but we encountered some problems with an activity
with an empty MANIFEST file and Aleksey Lim corrected this dependency
given tha twe knew that MANIFEST was being deprecated.

cjl