[Etoys] publishing Etoys projects as individual activities?

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Jan 11, 2008, at 22:34 , Bryan Berry wrote:

> Hey guys, 	
>
> The developers in Nepal have put together some really cool  
> activities.	
>
> http://olenepal.org/activities/epaati_bundle1.zip

Nice :) Now you just need to publish that as .xo bundle ...

> Ties Stuij also put together a nice little Etoy for Nepal in just a  
> few
> days
>
> http://stuij.se/etoys/MoneyBrother.008.pr
>
> I talked w/ Walter the other day about Squeak activities and he spoke
> about the need to put individual Squeak activities into individual
> bundles. That makes sense to me. At the same time I really like the
> tabbed interface that the OLE Nepal team came up. Please take a look.
>
> Would it be possible to keep the individual Squeak activities and
> particular image files separate but relate them? that way we could  
> still
> have cute interfaces that are easy to follow but not gigantic squeak
> image files.

Not with Sugar as currently designed - activities must be self- 
contained and not depend on each other. OTOH it would be possible to  
refer to other bundles currently because the activity separation is  
not (yet?) enforced. See

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bundles

> Also, is there a project space for E-paati on dev.laptop.org yet? I  
> saw
> the hosting request that Luke submitted 2 weeks ago but I don't see it
> on http://dev.laptop.org/git


Yes (although git does not work well for etoys projects as we  
discussed offline). But with the two shell accounts you can use  
server space on dev.laptop.org, and you could request a subversion  
setup similar to what etoys uses:

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu>
> Date: January 7, 2008 12:17:50  GMT+01:00
> To: luke at synap.se
> Cc: "devel Devel.List" <devel at lists.laptop.org>
> Subject: Re: Hosting request: epaati
>
>> 1. Project name             : E-Paati (unix: epaati)
>> 3. One-line description     : Squeak-based classroom learning
>> activities.
>
> Done. Your tree is here:
> git+ssh://dev.laptop.org/git/activities/epaati
>
> Your usernames are lukego and surendra. Please follow instructions
> here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ 
> Importing_your_project
>
> Let us know if you have any problems with your tree. Happy hacking.

- Bert -