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

[Daniel Narvaez]

On Friday, 28 September 2012, Walter Bender wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >> On 26 September 2012 16:02, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >>>> On 26 September 2012 15:40, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> 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.
>

If, say, you release 50 for gtk3 and then 51 for gtk2, new systems will
update to the gtk2 version.


-- 
Daniel Narvaez
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