Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-08-01 Thread Bastien
Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:40:39AM +0200, Bastien wrote: It's not that important anyway. It just occurred to me that the dependancies management challenge could be somehow dealt with by delivering a set of default activities. I'm not aware of any

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-08-01 Thread Erik Garrison
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 08:21:34PM +0200, Bastien wrote: Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:40:39AM +0200, Bastien wrote: It's not that important anyway. It just occurred to me that the dependancies management challenge could be somehow dealt with by

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-08-01 Thread Bastien
Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe what I'm suggesting boils down to integrate this core activities in the environment so that people installing Sugar won't have to install them separatly. Just the same way that installing a standard Fedora will install Gnome (will install

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-08-01 Thread Edward Cherlin
: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:19 PM To: devel@lists.laptop.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use There was an earlier discussion of how to provide the right build level for users out in the field, since now Builds can be installed separately from Activities

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-31 Thread Erik Garrison
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:40:39AM +0200, Bastien wrote: It's not that important anyway. It just occurred to me that the dependancies management challenge could be somehow dealt with by delivering a set of default activities. I'm not aware of any software distribution drawing such a strong

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-30 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 17:09 -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: Please ensure that you have filed tickets for each and every one of them What good will that do? We track issues through trac. Doing it through email is harder when you have a lot of email and a lot of issues. Filing a ticket

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-30 Thread Bastien
Bobby Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: recent joyrides include an activity updater which should help with this. And you guys could get rid of the scary red warning on the wiki :) on which page? See the barking here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Update.1_Software_Release_Notes

RE: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-29 Thread Jerry Williams
-Original Message- From: Benjamin M. Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 7:40 PM To: Jerry Williams Cc: 'Mikus Grinbergs'; devel@lists.laptop.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-29 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 15:10 -0400, Mikus Grinbergs 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. Please ensure that you have

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-29 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Please ensure that you have filed tickets for each and every one of them What good will that do? At the beginning of this year, I wrote a ticket saying an Activity would not start. Without notifying me, someone re-assigned *me* as the owner of that ticket -- presumably making it my

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-29 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Mikus, On 29 Jul 2008, at 22:09, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: Please ensure that you have filed tickets for each and every one of them What good will that do? At the beginning of this year, I wrote a ticket saying an Activity would not start. Without notifying me, someone re-assigned *me*

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-28 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerry Williams wrote: | Seems like this problem for linux was solved with RPM. | With rpm if something is missing for something you want to install, it | complains and won't let you install it. That's not really the problem we're discussing. We're

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-28 Thread Bastien
Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jerry Williams wrote: | Seems like this problem for linux was solved with RPM. | With rpm if something is missing for something you want to install, it | complains and won't let you install it. That's not really the problem we're discussing.

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-28 Thread Bobby Powers
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Bastien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jerry Williams wrote: | Seems like this problem for linux was solved with RPM. | With rpm if something is missing for something you want to install, it | complains and won't let

Re: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry Williams wrote: | Seems like this problem for linux was solved with RPM. | With rpm if something is missing for something you want to install, it | complains and won't let you install it. That's not really

RE: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use

2008-07-28 Thread Jerry Williams
@lists.laptop.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [sugar] specifying what services Activities may use There was an earlier discussion of how to provide the right build level for users out in the field, since now Builds can be installed separately from Activities -- leading to the possibility that for someone