[OLPC-Games] Forward of moderated message

[Samuel Klein]

Hi Tim,

What build are you running?   you may have a (very) old version of setup.py.

There was just some discussion about Game BAker on the games list; I
think you sent an earlier post that was bounced b/c you weren't a list
member.  It looks fantastic.  I'm sure that you can find some people
interested in helping with the sugar port as the project develops.

Cheers,
SJ

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Tim Wintle <tim.wintle at teamrubber.com>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to use the OLPCGames scripts to create a sugar runtime,
> but I can't get it to work on my emulated laptop.
> (Running qemu on Ubuntu Gutsy 64 - everything else seems to work great.)
>
> I get all the scripts fine, and everything works in (my) Linux.
>
> I then scp them to the XO (I've tried direct to /usr/share/activities
> and to ~/olpc - it's not clear from the wiki where to put them)
>
> Running "setup.py dev" seems to work fine, and after reboot the activity
> appears in the frame.
>
> But... I can't launch the activity.
>
> Looking in the logs I find a DBus error
> "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Failed to execute
> program /home/olpc/Activities/test.activity.activity/sugar-activity:No
> such file or directory"
>
> - what I don't understand is why is this .activity.activity? surely it's
> meant to be .activity?
>
> - is sugar-activity a standard command to launch an activity in the
> active directory? (There's no file of that name so I guess so)
>
>
> Hope someone can give some advice on how to sort this out, thanks in
> advance.
>
> Tim
>
>
>
> BTW, I am working on a project called Game Baker
> (http://code.google.com/p/game-baker/)
>
> which we hope to make into a completely graphical game development
> environment (currently pre-alpha, still requires simple python for event
> handlers, and it will be a while before we port the GUI to sugar - but
> it's a major goal).
>
> I'm trying to make an exporter to sugar packages, so games made with the
> system can run on the XO - hoping this will enable people who want to
> help but can't program to create educational games for the OLPC.