On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Kevin Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> "I think the activity updater does not look for the last activity in ASLO, >> but to a wiki page created to every release. And probably the wiki page is >> not updated." >> >> If the latest activities are in ASLO.. why continue using the wiki and not >> directly check in ASLO ???????? > > I believe this may be by design, so that if one has to do a full restore of > the machine, one can then easily put it back to the stable state that > existed at build time, updating only activities that had changed from os > build to final release. As such, in a perfect world, this would indeed show > no updates. > > One can easily then update whichever specific activities are wanted to be > updated to versions subsequent to that stable build by going to ASLO. For > example, there may exist many updated applications in ASLO that will not run > on older versions of Sugar, and to auto-update them via this may then > introduce the same instabilities that caused a restore in the first place:-) > > Just my theory. I do not speak for the designers/developers. >
Your theory is not far off the mark. Deployments choose to maintain particular versions of activities, so the activity updater is configured to respect those choices. regards. -walter > KG > > > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
