Tuxpaint activity is bloated

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Albert Cahalan <acahalan at gmail.com> wrote:
> The "sugar-is-lame" string comes from a value that activities are
> required to provide, even when the value is of no use. Activity
> authors are being forced to provide a random string that is of no
> use to the activity, so of course I provided one. The fact that I
> was **forced** to provide this string is of course evidence of the
> fact that sugar is in fact lame.

Every Java program is required to have a unique class name.  Most have
unique package names.  Is that lame?

Among other things, this value is used to identify programs which
purport to be the 'same' for upgrade purposes.  See the 'activity
management' portions of
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Presentations/April_2008_Technical_Mini-conference
for more information.

The Software Update control panel definitely uses the bundle_id,
whether you think it is lame or not.
 --scott

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