Re: [Sugar-devel] Changing bundle_id and version scheme for Etoys

2010-07-29 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 00:23 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > > There's no reason to have both a filename and a dbus-like name for the > > same thing. The former must already be unique on both distribution sites > > and in the Activities d

Re: [Sugar-devel] Changing bundle_id and version scheme for Etoys

2010-07-28 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > There's no reason to have both a filename and a dbus-like name for the > same thing. The former must already be unique on both distribution sites > and in the Activities directory. I claim we should be using the dbus-like name for "both

Re: [Sugar-devel] Changing bundle_id and version scheme for Etoys

2010-07-28 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 19:57 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > > A good surrogate could be that no two activities with the same name can > > be uploaded to ASLO. > > Translated name? English name? No Spanish name may conflict with a > Portuguese or English name? Seems a bit strange to me. Files

Re: [Sugar-devel] Changing bundle_id and version scheme for Etoys

2010-07-28 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 27.07.2010, at 18:57, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 18:21 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > >> This is a nicely decentralized mechanism for choosing identifiers >> which are guaranteed by construction never to conflict. > > It is indeed a simple and nice scheme, but why is s

Re: [Sugar-devel] Changing bundle_id and version scheme for Etoys

2010-07-28 Thread Lucian Branescu
On 27 July 2010 23:57, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 18:21 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > >> This is a nicely decentralized mechanism for choosing identifiers >> which are guaranteed by construction never to conflict. > > It is indeed a simple and nice scheme, but why is such u

Re: [Sugar-devel] Changing bundle_id and version scheme for Etoys

2010-07-27 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 18:21 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > > > This is a nicely decentralized mechanism for choosing identifiers > > which are guaranteed by construction never to conflict. > > It is indeed a simple and nice scheme, but

Re: [Sugar-devel] Changing bundle_id and version scheme for Etoys

2010-07-27 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 18:21 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > This is a nicely decentralized mechanism for choosing identifiers > which are guaranteed by construction never to conflict. It is indeed a simple and nice scheme, but why is such uniqueness a desiderable feature when developers can--and

Re: [Sugar-devel] Changing bundle_id and version scheme for Etoys

2010-07-27 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > The bundle base name (e.g Record) should be unique by itself, because > you can't have two directories named "Record.activity" in your > activities directory. This is, IMO, a bug. The directory should really be named after the bundle id.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Changing bundle_id and version scheme for Etoys

2010-07-27 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 17:56 +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote: > If it doesn't bother you that vpri is in the bundle name and VPRI > themselves don't have a problem with it, I don't think you should > bother changing it. For example many activities are org.laptop.*, even > though they're now developed u

Re: [Sugar-devel] Changing bundle_id and version scheme for Etoys

2010-07-22 Thread Lucian Branescu
On 22 July 2010 17:49, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 22.07.2010, at 12:18, Lucian Branescu wrote: > >> I was thinking of changing >> the bundle_id of Browse-webkit from 'org.laptop.WebActivity' to >> 'org.sugarlabs.WebActivity', to allow both Browse to be installed and >> working at the same time.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Changing bundle_id and version scheme for Etoys

2010-07-22 Thread Walter Bender
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 22.07.2010, at 12:18, Lucian Branescu wrote: > >> I was thinking of changing >> the bundle_id of Browse-webkit from 'org.laptop.WebActivity' to >> 'org.sugarlabs.WebActivity', to allow both Browse to be installed and >> working at the

[Sugar-devel] Changing bundle_id and version scheme for Etoys

2010-07-22 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 22.07.2010, at 12:18, Lucian Branescu wrote: > I was thinking of changing > the bundle_id of Browse-webkit from 'org.laptop.WebActivity' to > 'org.sugarlabs.WebActivity', to allow both Browse to be installed and > working at the same time. However, this might confuse users yet again, > since th