SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

[Jeffrey Kesselman]

Honestly,  I think the lack of Java on the XO has more with python
defensiveness then anything else.

I draw this conclusion partly from the fact that it has been pretty
crippling lack since initial inception of the XO, but one that there is
great resistance to fixing nonetheless.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Ben Wiley Sittler <bsittler at gmail.com>wrote:

> I think maintaining two parallel versions of the code in two languages
> would be a huge waste of effort for me, but if someone else wants to
> they are of course welcome to.
>
> I have neither time nor inclination to port it merely to work around
> the historical accident of Java not having been Open Source at the
> time Sugar was initially developed. Also, I think the UI of this
> program is actually more friendly to very young children by *not*
> being more Sugarized — there's no confusing Frame when they
> (inevitably) move the pointer to the edges of the screen, and since it
> doesn't (yet) have save support or text input there's really no reason
> for a toolbar or Journal integration. Mind you, minimal save/resume
> support might be nice to have on all platforms someday.
>
> On 2009-08-29, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> > Hi Ben,
> >
> > On 29 Aug 2009, at 18:24, Ben Wiley Sittler wrote:
> >
> >> I think, then, that I would rather just ship it as an activity bundle
> >> for "Sugar+Java or Sugar+OpenJDK", since the versioning issues (which
> >> OpenJDK version should I use, exactly?), licensing issues (GPLv2 &
> >> GPLv2+classpath-exception for OpenJDK vs. GPLv3 for SarynPaint,)
> >> packaging unknowns (how does one run OpenJDK from a subdirectory,
> >> exactly?), and bloat make bundling a JRE inside the .xo ridiculously
> >> impractical. I'm halfway tempted to try to subset OpenJDK for this (to
> >> reduce bloat), but that seems like an even bigger nightmare.
> >
> > Sorry if this is a controversial comment, but would you considered
> > porting the code to Python? It looks like a nice starter chunk of code
> > for someone interested in Python and or Sugar Activities.
> >
> > Regards,
> > --Gary
> >
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