Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-08-01 Thread Edward Cherlin
] [mailto:sugar- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mikus Grinbergs >> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:19 PM >> To: devel@lists.laptop.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use >> >> There was an earlier discussion of

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-08-01 Thread Bastien
Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Maybe what I'm suggesting boils down to integrate this core activities >> in the environment so that people installing Sugar won't have to install >> them separatly. Just the same way that installing a standard Fedora >> will install Gnome (will instal

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-08-01 Thread Erik Garrison
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 08:21:34PM +0200, Bastien wrote: > Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:40:39AM +0200, Bastien wrote: > >> It's not that important anyway. It just occurred to me that the > >> dependancies management challenge could be somehow dealt wi

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-08-01 Thread Bastien
Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:40:39AM +0200, Bastien wrote: >> It's not that important anyway. It just occurred to me that the >> dependancies management challenge could be somehow dealt with by >> delivering a set of default activities. I'm not aware of

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-31 Thread Erik Garrison
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:40:39AM +0200, Bastien wrote: > It's not that important anyway. It just occurred to me that the > dependancies management challenge could be somehow dealt with by > delivering a set of default activities. I'm not aware of any > software distribution drawing such a stro

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-30 Thread Bastien
"Bobby Powers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > recent joyrides include an activity updater which should help with this. > >> And you guys could get rid of the scary red warning on the wiki :) > > on which page? See the barking here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Update.1_Software_Release_Notes

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-30 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 17:09 -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > > Please ensure that you have filed tickets for each and every one of them > > What good will that do? We track issues through trac. Doing it through email is harder when you have a lot of email and a lot of issues. Filing a ticket keyw

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-29 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Mikus, On 29 Jul 2008, at 22:09, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: >> Please ensure that you have filed tickets for each and every one of >> them > > What good will that do? > > At the beginning of this year, I wrote a ticket saying an Activity > would not start. Without notifying me, someone re-assig

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-29 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
> Please ensure that you have filed tickets for each and every one of them What good will that do? At the beginning of this year, I wrote a ticket saying an Activity would not start. Without notifying me, someone re-assigned *me* as the owner of that ticket -- presumably making it my responsib

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 15:10 -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > A DECISION NEEDS TO BE MADE !!! > > I've been randomly launching Activities on 2226. __Far too many__ > of them fail -- because csound was changed, numeric was changed, > mixer was changed, etc., etc., etc. Please ensure that you have

RE: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-29 Thread Jerry Williams
> -Original Message- > From: Benjamin M. Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 7:40 PM > To: Jerry Williams > Cc: 'Mikus Grinbergs'; devel@lists.laptop.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities

RE: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-28 Thread Jerry Williams
vel@lists.laptop.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use > > There was an earlier discussion of how to provide the right build > level for users out in the field, since now Builds can be installed > separately from Activities -- leading to

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jerry Williams wrote: > | Seems like this problem for linux was solved with RPM. > | With rpm if something is missing for something you want to install, it > | complains and won't let you install it. > > That's not r

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-28 Thread Bobby Powers
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Benjamin M. Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Jerry Williams wrote: >> | Seems like this problem for linux was solved with RPM. >> | With rpm if something is missing for something you want to install, it >> | complains

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-28 Thread Bastien
"Benjamin M. Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jerry Williams wrote: > | Seems like this problem for linux was solved with RPM. > | With rpm if something is missing for something you want to install, it > | complains and won't let you install it. > > That's not really the problem we're discu

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-28 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerry Williams wrote: | Seems like this problem for linux was solved with RPM. | With rpm if something is missing for something you want to install, it | complains and won't let you install it. That's not really the problem we're discussing. We're ta