Re: What level Sugar Activities on F11 ?

2009-08-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Mikus Grinbergsmi...@bga.com 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

Re: What level Sugar Activities on F11 ?

2009-08-18 Thread David Farning
2009/8/17 Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com: 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

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

Re: What level Sugar Activities on F11 ?

2009-08-17 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Mikus Grinbergsmi...@bga.com 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

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

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 answer to

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. That's right. We