On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Simon Schampijer <si...@schampijer.de>wrote:
> On 10/17/2011 08:38 PM, Sascha Silbe wrote: > >> Excerpts from Simon Schampijer's message of 2011-10-17 11:07:13 +0200: >> >> - powerpc is not a popular Sugar platform to make an enormous effort for >>> supporting it >>> >> >> I wouldn't consider anything we discussed an "enormous effort". With >> that attitude PowerPC would never be a viable platform. Catch-22. >> > > I knew people would jump on that. The original patch would not have had any > impact on Sugar running on powerpc, just that the version displayed in the > CP would not have a meaning. I could have lived with that. Still, I am > waiting for reports of people running Sugar on powerpc... Just for reference, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Ubuntu/PPC http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora#PowerPC_Fedora_16 > And I don't think *this* is a blocker for them. > > > - displaying all of the string on both cases (OLPC/powerpc) will likely >>> confuse people used to the old humanized string that is displayed at >>> current >>> >>> - the string does always start with "CL": CL1 for XO-1, CL1B for XO-1.5, >>> CL2 for XO-1.75, to differentiate we can do the following: >>> >>> if: string.startswith('CL') string[6:13] >>> else: display all of the string >>> >> >> Sounds good enough to me. We don't even need the length check as >> foo[6:13] will simply give an empty string if foo is too short. Might be >> good to add a comment to that effect, though. >> > > I will send a new full patch. > > > Regards, > Simon > ______________________________**_________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.**org <Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/**listinfo/sugar-devel<http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel> >
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