A technical assessment of porting "Sugar" to Windows.

[Ludovic FERRE]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 8:32 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org> wrote:


> 1. Sugar design guidelines.
>
> Windows developers would port existing applications (Word, for
> example) and provide simplified interfaces matching the Sugar UI
> guidelines, but these activities would not share any code or
> interoperate in any way with Sugar/GNU/Linux.  The collaboration and
> other features itemized below would exist in Sugar/Windows only to the
> extent to which the original or newly-written applications supported
> them: native Word collaboration via a SharePoint server, for example,
> would replace the Abiword-based peer-to-peer collaboration of
> Sugar/GNU/Linux.


I think that one option that should not be discounted is the stack
Sugar/GNU/Windows.

In this case you could keep ABI Word (using the Win32 version) and
other open source collaboration tools instead of implementing what Nicholas
would call bloat-ware (Share point is probably the ugliest CMS you could
deploy - a simple wiki would work tons better ;).

Ludovic
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