specifying what services Activities may use

[Bobby Powers]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com> wrote:
>
> A DECISION NEEDS TO BE MADE !!!
>
> I've been randomly launching Activities on 2226.  __Far too many__
> of them fail -- because csound was changed, numeric was changed,
> mixer was changed, etc., etc., etc.
>
>
> Given that there *are* Activities out in the hands of users (both
> with G1G1 and with country distributions), the question becomes:
>
>   HOW IMPORTANT IS IT TO AVOID USER-PERCEIVED REGRESSIONS ?
>
>
> For what it's worth, my opinion is that if users who *had* been able
> to run many different Activities were to be offered 2226, they would
> be better off staying with what they have.

did these work in 708?  how about in joyrides before we started
slimming things down?

>
> mikus
>
>
>
> p.s.  I started this topic to point out that "slimming down the
> build" could inhibit Activities *yet to be developed*.  But it turns
> out that "slimming down the build" is killing *existing* Activities.

slimming down the build WONT inhibit activities yet to be developed -
those activities can include libraries in the XO bundles.  My activity
(Model) does that, so does Physics, so does Develop, and a number of
other ones do too.

yours,
bobby

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