Re: What level Sugar Activities on F11 ?

2009-08-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > [For whoever deleted from laptop.org the webpage listing optional Activities > for build 767 systems -- thanks a lot,  NOT.] That would be bad (we have lots of our real users -- kids -- still on 767, and even earlier), so I just checked th

Re: What level Sugar Activities on F11 ?

2009-08-18 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
> ASLO is naive about stable vs unstable platforms. Instead, when a > Sugar Client pings ASLO for update information, it sends a string > identifing which version of Sugar is running on the client. ASLO then > responds by sending a link to the most appropriate update for a the > given version of

Re: What level Sugar Activities on F11 ?

2009-08-18 Thread David Farning
2009/8/17 Mikus Grinbergs : >>> Is XO-1.5 software expected to run Activities marked "for 0.86" ? >> >> If we are shipping Sugar 0.84, the answer is no (due to API incompatibility). >> The current build tools pulls in the latest stable activities from >> ASLO somewhat blindly (as per my understandi

Re: What level Sugar Activities on F11 ?

2009-08-17 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Mikus, > So it comes down to the ASLO "release" date (published 0.86 > target is September), vs. the XO-1.5 "release" (to production) > date (published target is "later in 2009"). "Test time" against > 0.84 is accumulating -- but "test time" against 0.86 appears > doubtful. Tha

Re: What level Sugar Activities on F11 ?

2009-08-17 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
>> Is XO-1.5 software expected to run Activities marked "for 0.86" ? > > If we are shipping Sugar 0.84, the answer is no (due to API incompatibility). > The current build tools pulls in the latest stable activities from > ASLO somewhat blindly (as per my understanding) I am interpreting this answ

Re: What level Sugar Activities on F11 ?

2009-08-17 Thread David Farning
Mikus, Many of us would like an answer to that question sooner rather than later But, in OLPCs defence it is a very difficult issues. The two issues are: 1. Increasing the number of deployed versions greatly increases the cost of support. 2. While recent versions of Sugar have additional fun

Re: What level Sugar Activities on F11 ?

2009-08-17 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > I asked once before, but got no answer: > > | When the XO-1.5 on F11 software is eventually deployed (e.g., > | installed by the factory), what level of Sugar will it provide ? > > I just installed 'write-66.xo' on a Parrish XO-1 build on my

What level Sugar Activities on F11 ?

2009-08-17 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I asked once before, but got no answer: | When the XO-1.5 on F11 software is eventually deployed (e.g., | installed by the factory), what level of Sugar will it provide ? I just installed 'write-66.xo' on a Parrish XO-1 build on my XO-1. It failed to launch, because its python code could not find