A good point - now's an excellent time to start using it. it can be used for a soft interaction -- a warning on installation if the activity might not be compatible. <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Christoph Derndorfer <<a href="mailto:christoph.derndorfer@gmail.com">christoph.derndorfer@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi all, I was wondering whether there were any plans to make use of the "hosts" variable in the <a href="http://activity.info" target="_blank">activity.info</a> files to determine whether an activity runs on the specific Sugar installation. With 0.86 being on the horizont, 0.84 being used on SoaS, 0.82 being widely used among the G1G1 community and some deployments and many deployment still using pre-0.82 software I think the issue of activity compatibility deserves some serious attention. Otherwise this has the potential to create _a lot of_ confusion and frustration further down the road. Not sure what the original plans wrt the technical implemention of this feature were but I would assume the harder part of solving this problem is spreading the word among activity developers to update their .xo bundles accordingly. Cheers, Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, olpcnews url: <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com" target="_blank">www.olpcnews.com</a> e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@olpcnews.com" target="_blank">christoph@olpcnews.com</a> _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </blockquote></div>