update.1 "breaking" wrapped activities?

Michael Stone michael at laptop.org
Thu Apr 3 00:05:54 EDT 2008


That's the big on/off switch for all isolation. Sugar also independently
decides to turn off isolation for a small number of activities listed in
its source code.

Michael

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 07:33:36PM -0700, Carol Lerche wrote:
> Is this the reason that Bryan Berry in Nepal found that Tux Paint did not
> work, and is the instruction given here:
> 
> http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Test_Config_Notes&action=edit&section=29
> 
> still the correct way to disable isolation?
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpgritti at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com> wrote:
> > > > in a description of how non-sugar apps need some help to run
> > >  > properly under sugar, the current front page of OLPC News
> > >  > contains the following quote:
> > >  >
> > >  >     "...  there is some discussion that Update 1, a forthcoming
> > >  >     upgrade to Sugar, will break all existing wrappers, and
> > >  >     current Activities will need to be re-coded and re-wrapped."
> > >
> > >  I assumed that what's behind this is the introduction of rainbow.
> > >  [I'm not sure of the date of the transition to rainbow, but perhaps
> > >  G1G1 participants might be exposed to it when installing Update.1]
> >
> > You are right looks like isolation has been enabled by default only
> > starting from Update.1.
> >
> > Marco
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