Re: [Sugar-devel] updating from aslo

2009-07-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 19:39, Daniel Draked...@laptop.org wrote: 2009/7/16 David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org: A possible answer would be to abstract ALSOParse.py and microformat.py as back ends for Sugar-Update-Control (SUC). It's not so much the issue of losing support for the existing

Re: [Sugar-devel] updating from aslo

2009-07-17 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Michael Stonemich...@laptop.org wrote: David, Could you please point me to an explanation of why it's hard to get ASLO to generate the microformat that is already understood by the tens of thousands of sugar-0.82 machines in Uruguay, the US, and elsewhere

Re: [Sugar-devel] updating from aslo

2009-07-17 Thread Luke Faraone
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 07:29, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Going forward, this option represents a increase in usability with a very low cost of maintenance. Sure, but what about legacy deployments, where it is rare to update the existing software? -- Luke Faraone

Re: [Sugar-devel] updating from aslo

2009-07-17 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: 2009/7/16 David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org: A possible answer would be to abstract ALSOParse.py and microformat.py as back ends for Sugar-Update-Control (SUC). It's not so much the issue of losing support for the

Re: [Sugar-devel] updating from aslo

2009-07-16 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 10:17 -0500, David Farning wrote: Attached is a very early prototype of a sugar updater which pulls from ASLO. It kind-of works on jhbuild;-/ To test, unzip and drop it into sugar-jhbuild/install/share/sugar/extensions/cpsection. run using

Re: [Sugar-devel] updating from aslo

2009-07-16 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 18:23, David Farningdfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Daniel Draked...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 10:17 -0500, David Farning wrote: Attached is a very early prototype of a sugar updater which pulls from ASLO. It kind-of works

[Sugar-devel] updating from aslo

2009-07-16 Thread Michael Stone
David, Could you please point me to an explanation of why it's hard to get ASLO to generate the microformat that is already understood by the tens of thousands of sugar-0.82 machines in Uruguay, the US, and elsewhere so that I can form a more solid opinion of your work? Thanks, Michael

[Sugar-devel] updating from ASLO

2009-06-18 Thread David Farning
The basic principle behind the ALSO updater seems to be that you send a url to ASLO - Services and it responds with a list of available updates. Server side, the updater is part of ALSO services, a collection of activity related services. The relevant code is found under

Re: [Sugar-devel] updating from ASLO

2009-06-18 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 02:28:35PM -0500, David Farning wrote: The basic principle behind the ALSO updater seems to be that you send a url to ASLO - Services and it responds with a list of available updates. Server side, the updater is part of ALSO services, a collection of activity related

Re: [Sugar-devel] updating from ASLO

2009-06-18 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 08:31:42PM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 02:28:35PM -0500, David Farning wrote: I tried this: http://activities-devel.sugarlabs.org/services/update.php?id=bounceappID={3ca105e0-2280-4897-99a0-c277d1b733d2}version=foo id: GUID of activity in