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[Pat McGowan <pat.mcgowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Note that the developer should be able to claim support for multiple
frameworks.

We had decided to revision frameworks separately for Qt/QML and HTML, so
should we go ahead with that now rather than use a "sdk" named revision?

Pat


On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On 02/12/2014 04:17 PM, Michael Hall wrote:
> > During last week's sprint, after going over all of the pro's and con's
> > of naming conventions, it was decided that the next Click framework
> > version would be called "ubuntu-sdk-14.04".
> >
> > We want to start having app developers target the latest set of APIs,
> > but since they are still in development and subject to change, we also
> > decided to use a interim framework version called
> > "ubuntu-sdk-14.04-dev".  This framework version would match the APIs as
> > they are right now, but because they are not the final version of the
> > 14.04 APIs we won't make any guarantee that this specific framework
> > version will be supported.  If we get to the release of 14.04, and we
> > haven't made any API changes that would break backwards compatibility
> > with the 14.04-dev APIs, we can continue to support it, otherwise we
> > will drop support for that framework and app developers will need to
> > update their apps accordingly.
> >
> > I would like to note that we don't plan on doing this every cycle, but
> > there are so many additions to the set of supported APIs already that we
> > want app developers to be able to take advantage of them, properly using
> > the Click framework definitions, without having to wait until April.
> > After 14.04 is stable, we will likely support only that version (and the
> > previous 13.10 version) until the next stable release in 14.10.
> >
> > Below are the list of things that need to be done in various places in
> > order to support the ubuntu-sdk-14.04-dev framework version:
> >
> > 1) [bzoltan] Update QtCreator plugin and/or templates to use
> > "ubuntu-sdk-14.04-dev" in the Click manifest.json for all *new*
> > projects.  Existing projects using "ubuntu-sdk-13.10" will still be
> > supported, and the framework version doesn't need to change unless the
> > developer adds the new APIs to the app, in which case it's their
> > responsibility to update their manifest.json
> >
> > 2) [beuno] The Click store needs to accept Click package uploads using
> > both the "ubuntu-sdk-13.10" and "ubuntu-sdk-14.04-dev" frameworks. It
> > also needs to accept queries (coming from the Click scope) containing
> > one of both framework versions. Work will need to be coordinated with
> > the Click scope developers on the format for passing more than one
> > framework version.
> >
> > 3) [alecu] The Click scope will need to include both "ubuntu-sdk-13.10"
> > and "ubuntu-sdk-14.04-dev" in the query it sends to the Click store.
> > The current scope, which is in the process of being re-written, uses a
> > hard-coded value for this, and I propose that we just change that
> > hard-coded value for now and add proper multi-framework support and
> > detection into the new scope only.
> >
> > 4) [cjwatson] New device images need to have a file named
> > ubuntu-sdk-14.04-dev.framework placed in /usr/share/click/frameworks/ to
> > let the Click tools know that it is a supported framework version.
> >
> > 5) [mhall191] The online API docs need to be updated for the 14.04 APIs.
> >  I have already done this for the QML docs, and am working on the HTML5
> > docs this week.
> >
> > 6) [mhall119] Once all of the other items have been completed, I will
> > write a blog post on developer.ubuntu.com detailing the changes that
> > were made, and their implication to application developers.
> >
>
> 7) [cjwatson] click needs to provide an API for hooks to query for the
> major
> version of the specified framework (likely also needs metadata in framework
> file). Ie, "ubuntu-sdk-14.04-dev" and "ubuntu-sdk-14.04" both report
> "ubuntu-sdk-14.04" as the major version, which is important to hooks like
> click-apparmor that don't care about transitional frameworks and only need
> the
> major version.
>
> 8) [jdstrand] click-apparmor needs to be adjusted to use the click
> framework API
> to map Ubuntu framework major versions to apparmor policy
>
> 9) [jdstrand] click-apparmor should provide an API to query supported
> apparmor
> policy version for a given framework
>
> 10) [jdstrand] click-reviewers-tools needs to be updated to support
> "ubuntu-sdk-14.04-dev" with additional checks to verify policy version
> against
> framework, etc
>
> 11) [bzoltan] Update QtCreator plugin and/or templates to use apparmor
> policy
> version 1.1 when using "ubuntu-sdk-14.04*" and 1.0 when using
> "ubuntu-sdk-13.10". This can be determined via the API provided in '9',
> above
>
>
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