On 01/22/2014 12:10 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > As I understand it, the agreement from the app-frameworks discussion at > UDS was that we wanted to be able to offer slightly more fine-grained > framework declarations, and allow apps to require multiple frameworks. > (This would also help with ABI breaks like Qt 5.2; no reason to require > QML-only apps to change just because we change an implementation detail > of the platform that only affects native-code apps.) I planned for this > when laying out the Click file formats, but it didn't make the > implementation cut for 13.10. > > The code currently in lp:click, which will become version 0.4.14, > extends the "framework" manifest field a bit to support this. With > this, assuming appropriate declaration files in > /usr/share/click/frameworks/, apps will be able to do something like > this: > > "frameworks": "ubuntu-14.04-qml, ubuntu-14.04-html5" > > click does not care what the names are; these are just examples. The > idea here is that if we do need to do ABI breaks in the future, at least > this limits the set of affected apps, and presumably we can keep the > most widely-used ones more stable. I would suggest that we don't go > overboard on how fine-grained we make this, so that app authors don't > need to make overly complex decisions. > > If you have any (non-bikeshed) concerns about this, please let me know > before I get the landing ask for click 0.4.14 approved. :-) > > Cheers, > Does this support the concept of a range of framework versions? Or is the idea we explicitly list each version the system supports, as would the apps click package.
Pat
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