[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Abacus-36

[Walter Bender]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 26 September 2012 16:02, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 26 September 2012 15:40, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hmm. 100 is not large enough, whereas I am already up to Turtle Blocks v160 :P
>>>>> But I don't know why even/odd is any less obvious than >< 100.
>>>>> I am not sure how to proceed.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe start using dotted numbers for the gtk3 version only?
>>>
>>> That is an interesting idea. And as long as we list the dotted number
>>> versions as 0.96+ then older Sugars will not look at them. So we could
>>> have a whole number for gtk2 (< 0.96) and dotted number for gtk3.
>>> Might work. But needs testing.
>>
>> As Gonzalo pointed out the problem is that latest sugar will see old
>> gtk2 versions of the activity as newer than dotted recent ones. I'm
>> getting convinced we should just use a very high version number (like
>> 1000.0) to avoid that. Ugly but very straightforward.
>
> Maybe just use 100.
>
> From release 12 to 36 it's been a little over 2 years so at that rate
> it's around 3 years until we reach 100 on gtk2. By then we should have
> most end users above 10.1.3 and those that aren't are very unlikely to
> be updating versions of Activities anyway so if we hit the 90s we can
> go to dot releases. By them I hope gtk2 stuff is dead and we're all
> just dealing with gtk3+
>
> Peter

I am not sure what problem we are trying to solve. If I give you any
release number > than the latest gtk2 version, won't that solve your
problem? And if I label that release with 0.96+ in ASLO, won't that
resolve itself re old Sugar systems? I think the solution may lie in
simply not making tar balls for gtk2 versions.

-walter

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