On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:30 PM, S Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon Schampijer wrote: >> This is our first Development Release in the 0.84 cycle. The code base >> has seen many refactoring efforts to improve the platform. > > Will OLPC joyride builds pick up the new Sucrose?
Sure. Hopefully soon. >> Furthermore the datastore has been rewritten, to simplify and improve >> maintainability. The API has been kept in place. > > What happens when you upgrade an XO with the old datastore? The old datastore will be updated to the new format. > What happens if you then downgrade it? You lose. >> Sugar moved to use Gconf as a back end to store the profile. > When you upgrade an XO, does it import your old profile > (~olpc/.sugar/default/config)? Yup. > What happens if you then downgrade? You will be prompted to enter again a name, choose a color, etc. >> An ABI policy has been figured out and modules have been marked as >> STABLE / UNSTABLE / DEPRECATED. > Where are they marked, in the .py files? Yes, in the docstrings so it should make it to places like http://api.sugarlabs.org >> == Fructose news == >> ... > > Are the new activity versions backwards-compatible with 8.2? If so, the > maze of Activity lists should be updated. Most of them yes, a notable exception is Browse because depends on xulrunner and hulahop. Read has the same issue, but evince hasn't been updated (yet) so for now it should work. > Currently http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/Joyride pulls in > Activities/G1G1 , as does Activities/G1G1/8.2, and that list still > references old versions -- Browse 98 not 100, Read 52 not 60, etc. -- > even though the links say "Browse (latest)". Who could take care of this? >> Full Release Notes: >> http://sugarlabs.org/go/ReleaseTeam/Releases/Sucrose/0.83.1 > Maybe you could address these questions in a ==Compatibility== section > in the release notes. Yes, I agree this is an important issue that should be given greater relevance in the release notes. > The changes and fixes sound excellent! More coming! Thanks, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar