We should also plan for a transition of checkbox-gui (in the main archive) early in the 15.04 series, as soon as the archive opens basically.
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Zygmunt Krynicki <[email protected]> wrote: > [snip] > 19:40 <@zyga> the biggest thing that didn't go in (and wont anytime > soon) is manager.runner patchset > 19:40 <@zyga> where you could just manager.runner.run(job, context, ui) > 19:41 <@zyga> but that will go away along with the runner actually > 19:41 <@zyga> runner will be decomposed to a shell runner + logger and > a new class that interprets a job.plugin and converts that to a > sequence of commands > 19:41 <@zyga> (not shell commands) > 19:41 <@zyga> (ui commands) > 19:42 <@zyga> I realized that until we can kill checkbox-gui none of > this can result in removing code :/ > 19:42 <@zyga> so I want to reach parity ASAP and kill checkbox-gui > 19:42 <@zyga> one big problem to face is checkbox-gui requirements, > aka 14.10+ :/ > 19:43 <@zyga> we will have to spend some time to get the app to work with > 14.04 > 19:43 <@zyga> and put 12.04 SDK apps on life support (unless it can > run the same as 14.04 but I haven't checked) > > So there you have it. It is in my interest to totally kill off > checkbox-gui and the resulting piles of code we cannot change without > changing C++ and dbus. To make that happen we need to have > checkbox-touch (including pyotherside) that works on 14.04, and if > possible on 12.04). > > I'll handle pyotherside. If you love hacking after hours, I'd love to > know if we can get checkbox-touch to work on 12.04 + SDK ppa and > vanilla 14.04. > > Thanks > ZK -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~checkbox-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~checkbox-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
