Need Help

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Michael Stone wrote:

> As Tomeu said, Rainbow has detected that your activity's directory, 
> /home/olpc/activities/Qirat.activity, is writable by the activity. 
> Activities are not permitted to modify their own bundles. Consequently, 
> Rainbow scuttled the launch.

That's good of it.

> Tomeu: what do you suggest Rainbow should do in response to this kind of 
> assertion failure? Should we really try to print a more readable 
> explanation of what failed, given the degree to which such explanations 
> would bloat the code-base? Also, if so, does this message need to be 
> localized?

I would suggest printing a URL to a page on wiki.laptop.org that has more 
information and/or an error code with a link to look up the error code. 
(I prefer the former, but the latter could save a few bytes (that I think 
are probably not worth saving) by storing only one URL for looking up the 
problems, plus the error code strings/numbers, combining them at error 
print time.)

-- Asheesh.

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