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This proposal assumes that the core of Sugar development (in common sense) is a wide variety of developers, not just those developers who are taking part in Sugar core (glucose) development. It is all about seeing Sugar activity development from an activity/3rd-party developer's point of view.
 
This proposal assumes that the core of Sugar development (in common sense) is a wide variety of developers, not just those developers who are taking part in Sugar core (glucose) development. It is all about seeing Sugar activity development from an activity/3rd-party developer's point of view.
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From such new core POV, sugar development process will look like: <!-- not sure what you are trying to say here --Walter -->
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From such new core POV, sugar development process will look like:
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* variety of Sugar activities
 
* variety of Sugar activities
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* that use Sugar Services
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* that use variety of Sugar Services
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So, developers use a set of services that have their own API changes based schedules. Glucose could be [[Documentation Team/Services/Native packages usage|wrapped]] to regular service(s) with proper API changes based major versions e.g. if sucrose's activity API wasn't changed since 0.82(sucrose-0.x service) all activities that requires ''sucrose 0'' will be launched but instead of launching activities with requirements ''sucrose 1'', user will be warned about outdated sugar environment.
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Developers use a set of services that have their own API changes based schedules. Existed glucose packages will be treated as a big service (split to several components, but thats not a task for this proposal). This proposal is about proposing basic infrastructure of Sugar Services and several services that are not part of glucose.
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The corner stone of Sugar Services proposal is [[Activity_Team/Services/Saccharin|Saccharin]] library. This library provides installing/upgrading (via 0install) mechanism for services. The rest of services is just variety of libraries/applications/native-packages. Saccharin could be a part of glucose (some of its releases) or bundled to .xo otherwise.
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The corner stone of Sugar Services proposal is [[Activity_Team/Services/Saccharin|Saccharin]] service. This service provides installing/upgrading (via 0install) mechanism for all other services. The rest of services is just variety of libraries/applications.
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Technically, Sugar Services could be a part of glucose (or some of its releases) but from activity POV it doesn't make much sense. If an activity requires some service, [[Activity_Team/Services/Saccharin|Saccharin]] will do nothing if requested service/version is already a part of the installed glucose or install proper service(via 0install). Various activities on the same system could use various versions of the same service, in that case [[Activity_Team/Services/Saccharin|Saccharin]](via 0install) will just provide proper version to particular activity.
      
== FAQ ==
 
== FAQ ==
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