[Sugar-devel] Sugar Platform clarifications

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 02:48:18PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>On 01.12.2009, at 13:33, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 11:27:27AM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>> On 01.12.2009, at 02:43, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 02:15:46AM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>>>> On 29.11.2009, at 15:02, Sascha Silbe wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.86/Platform_Components
>>>>>
>>>>> Speaking of Etoys - that 0.86 page lists 4.0.2206, whereas the 
>>>>> actual Etoys version in the 0.86 release was 4.0.2319 (and 
>>>>> 4.0.2332 in 0.86.2). How come? Should I just change it, and if so, 
>>>>> to which version? Also, there have been some bug fixes since then, 
>>>>> the current version (good for 0.82 to 0.86) is 4.0.2339.
>>>>
>>>> I believe that page should have the minimal version working with 
>>>> Sugar.
>>>>
>>>> It is a wiki: feel free to update if the information is wrong :-)
>>>
>>> I changed it to 4.0.2332.
>>
>> Which means you consider older versions to *not* work with Sugar?
>
>No, but the page says that these are the versions that "activity 
>authors can rely on" when targeting Sugar 0.86. Actually, 4.0.2339 has 
>an important fix for etoys-based activities (SugarLabs #1576), but 
>since this was not ready in time for 0.86, activity authors can not 
>rely on it.

Python 2.6 was also "ready" when 0.86 was released, but promising 
activity authors as a minimum that version raise the bar for 
distributors.

I strongly recommend to promote a more relaxed "lowest denominator".


 - Jonas

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