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
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