[Debian-olpc-devel] List of tasks to be done (was: Re: maintaining squeak and friends)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 06:31:42PM +0100, Siegfried-A. Gevatter wrote:
>2010/1/28 Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>:
>>> # Space-delimited list of supported branches, lowest listed first
>>> # (comment out if all current branches are supported)
>
>Yeah, I had seen that. What I meant is that I didn't know what it's
>actually used for.

Do you know now?  If so, could you perhaps suggest improved wording to 
better help others puzzled in the future like you were previously?


>> Some activities target only a single Sugar environment (either only 
>> latest&greatest Sugar or multiple concurrent development tracks 
>> targeting one (or more) Sugar branches each), while others are coded 
>> to adapt to multiple Sugar environments.
>>  [...] to be certain you really need to test against the actual 
>>  system that the code works
>
>So you're using a virtual machine (or whatever) to test for every Sugar 
>version? Since two versions can't be installed at the same time...

I find virtual environments too error prone for testing desktop 
ineraction.  I either install the different environments one after the 
other on my own laptop, or use different machines (my girlfriend and her 
kids use Debian too on separate machines).

And I read the source changes between each release closely (even if I do 
not understand it all fully) to help get a feeling what areas of the 
code might exhibit flaws with the different Sugar branches.


Oh, BTW: You should probably read the code closely anyway (if you don't 
do that already) to make sure that packages for all Python modules 
loaded and all non-Python commands executed are explicitly depended on.  
It is not enough that they get pulled in by other packages, the package 
must depend explicitly on all code that it directly rely on.


  - Jonas

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