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[Zygmunt Krynicki <zygmunt.krynicki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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19:40 <@zyga> the biggest thing that didn't go in (and wont anytime
soon) is manager.runner patchset
19:40 <@zyga> where you could just manager.runner.run(job, context, ui)
19:41 <@zyga> but that will go away along with the runner actually
19:41 <@zyga> runner will be decomposed to a shell runner + logger and
a new class that interprets a job.plugin and converts that to a
sequence of commands
19:41 <@zyga> (not shell commands)
19:41 <@zyga> (ui commands)
19:42 <@zyga> I realized that until we can kill checkbox-gui none of
this can result in removing code :/
19:42 <@zyga> so I want to reach parity ASAP and kill checkbox-gui
19:42 <@zyga> one big problem to face is checkbox-gui requirements,
aka 14.10+ :/
19:43 <@zyga> we will have to spend some time to get the app to work with 14.04
19:43 <@zyga> and put 12.04 SDK apps on life support (unless it can
run the same as 14.04 but I haven't checked)

So there you have it. It is in my interest to totally kill off
checkbox-gui and the resulting piles of code we cannot change without
changing C++ and dbus. To make that happen we need to have
checkbox-touch (including pyotherside) that works on 14.04, and if
possible on 12.04).

I'll handle pyotherside. If you love hacking after hours, I'd love to
know if we can get checkbox-touch to work on 12.04 + SDK ppa and
vanilla 14.04.

Thanks
ZK