[sugar] Bundle .info change

Marco Pesenti Gritti mpg at redhat.com
Mon Dec 18 12:53:37 EST 2006


Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On Dec 18, 2006, at 16:21 , Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> it's not necessary to pass the service name to sugar-activity-factory 
>> anymore. The Exec field for python activities should look like:
>>
>> exec = sugar-activity-factory webactivity.WebActivity
>>
>> I'm going to push the latest sugar on the images tonight, so I will 
>> need updated bundles.
>
> Couldn't you just support both for a few builds? Like, depending on 
> the number of arguments, ignore one  argument if two are given. If I 
> push an updated etoys package now, we'd cut off people who still run 
> the older sugar.

We simply don't have the resources to deal with backward compatibility 
at this point. Bundle format or activity API will surely break again in 
the future and it might break in ways that will require more than a one 
liner to fix. I'm sorry for the incovenience.

Marco


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