[sugar] Interface Definition for Activity Writers

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com> wrote:
> In the 'OLPC News (2008-05-17) - Tech Team' posting, Kim writes:
>> rebasing our builds ... by the weekend should have a build that
>> can be tested.  At this point many activities will need some work.
>
> I'm not sure what Kim meant by that last sentence.

I think that was actually part of Dennis status report. I was a bit
surprised too, I suspect he just means that we need to build for
Fedora 9 dependencies like pyxpcom and pyabiword which are not
currently included in the distro.

> I believe strongly that "outsiders" ought to be allowed to develop
> Activities.  If "rebasing" the XO builds (in this case from Fedora-7
> to Fedora-9) involves work for providers of Activities, that's to me
> a sign that the __interface definition__ (to 'Glucose') needs work.

I don't think the rebasing will require any work to the activities authors.

Marco