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[Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/16/2015 03:22 AM, Zoltán Balogh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> there are two places where you can observe what framework is available on the
> device and by the SDK or the store:
> 
> On the device just `adb shell` in  run `click framework lists` and it will list
> what frameworks the device is labelled up.
> 
> The other place where the SDK too pulls the supported frameworks is the store
> itself [1]
> 
> The mother of all these lives in the Ubuntu Touch metapackage [2] and provided
> by the ubuntu-sdk-libs package.
> 
> The OTA6 update brought the framework label 'ubuntu-sdk-15.10-[.*]' So if a
> developer want to use the API changes brought by the OTA6 then it is suggested
> to bind the application to the '15.10' framework label
> 

Note that this landing was uncoordinated with the security team (I just now
heard about it). There is no security policy for 15.10 on the device at the
moment so targeting a 15.10 framework in an app won't work on a 15.04 device.

> cheers,
> 
> bzoltan
> 
> 
> [1] https://myapps.developer.ubuntu.com/dev/api/click-framework/
> [2] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-touch-meta
> 
> On 09/16/2015 10:19 AM, Alberto Mardegan wrote:
>> Hi all!
>>    I'm writing this because I'm quite confused about the fate with wily
>> and the 15.10 frameworks as far as the phones are concerned. Since I
>> suspect I'm not the only one who is confused, I thought of writing here.
>>
>> As I understand it, Wily will not be released on the phones. We'll
>> continue to work on the Vivid+overlay, and we'll move to 16.04 once it's
>> released.
>>
>> Now, my confusion is mostly about the 15.10 framework. Is it following
>> the same fate as wily (that is, it will never land on our phones) or
>> will it land on the vivid+overlay images?
>> Or (as I've also heard) the changes planned for the 15.10 framework are
>> being backported into the 15.04 framework, which sounds even more confusing?
>>
>> The question is quite crucial for Online Accounts, because we have
>> implemented some big changes which we wanted to publish on the 15.10
>> framework and give developers a grace time before removing the old APIs
>> in the 16.04 framework. But if the 15.10 framework is never going to
>> land on the phones, we obviously need to revisit this.
>>
>> Please shed some light :-)
>>
>> Ciao,
>>    Alberto
>>
> 
> 


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Jamie Strandboge                 http://www.ubuntu.com/

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