On 09/21/2010 03:17 AM, Gary Martin wrote: > Hi Shan, > > On 20 Sep 2010, at 21:54, Shanjit Singh Jajmann<shan...@dev.seeta.in> wrote: > >> Sir/Ma'am, >> >> I am actually facing problem with this particular bug( >> http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1442 ), it would be helpful if a few >> pointers be provided. Also if someone could elaborate on how to check >> between sugar / activity Compatibility it would be helpful. > > This seems a rather hopeful bug to really fix, I'm not clear there is an > actual solution. Version support/awareness is currently covered/attempted by > a mix of distro/deployment testing and the flags set when an activity > maintainer uploads a new activity release to http://activities.sugarlabs.org. > I understand the ASLO flagging may not be happening very well after an irc > chat with David (dfarning) and have offered to at least try to sweep through > 0.82 and flag wrongly categorised activities on ASLO. > > I try to make the activities I look out for work on _all_ official Sugar > releases, though this might have to break at some point given the likely code > churn for future 0.92. I do test all my releases on 0.82, 0.84, and a recent > Sugar build when available (0.88 usually, 0.90 pre releases are still pretty > unstable to do much sane activity release work on other than obvious reported > API breaks). > > I understand it could be possible to introduce a minimal version support > value by the developer in the activity.info file, but many activity breaks to > my eye are new Sugar/distro releases that break some previously supported > feature or dependancy. As an activity developer there is no obvious way to > pre guess what features some distro or core Sugar developers may decide to > drop in the future. > > Sorry if that is not much help, there may well be some generic solution, but > I don't see it just now — you have a tough bug! > > Regards, > --Gary
To make it short, for starting fixing bugs you should probably pick another one if that is not the one you absolutely need to fix. Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel