[Sugar-devel] Activity Versioning - Dotted Scheme

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 29.11.2009, at 20:50, Simon Schampijer wrote:
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> 
> Well, if an activity will work for an older release is not only 
> determined by the activity version number. For example, activities that 
> moved to the new toolbar design are not working for older releases < 
> 0.86. I don't think we can always avoid breaking backwards compatibility.

But so far we have managed to make is at least *possible* for an activity author to have a single activity version run under all Sugar versions. This would be the first instance where the author would not have that chance.

I'm pretty sure we can find a scheme that both allows a single activity bundle to provide dotted version numbers for new Sugar, but keep working in old Sugar.

E.g., we do not have to re-use the "activity_version" field if that breaks the parsing in older versions. It could be a new field named "dotted_activity_version" or simply "version" or something else. An activity author who cared could then provide both, a decimal and a dotted activity version.

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