[sugar] [IAEP] Sugar for the rich

[Walter Bender]

One of our goals is to make Sugar (and its development environment)
available even to those without XOs, which is most children for the
foreseeable future. The fact that most of Sugar is written in Python
means that at some level anyone with a text editor can be a developer.
And, as Marco pointed out, we are trying to get a baseline out that
runs on multiple distributions and platforms. But it will take us some
time to get to that point.

-walter

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com> wrote:
>> There are Sugar packages for
>> Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu, the OLPC images, Greg livecd.
>
> The point of my post was that if I were living in a remote area somewhere, I
> might well have received a XO from some organization. I'd be much less
> likely to have received Fedora or Debian or Ubuntu, or images or a livecd.
>
>> What do you mean with jhbuild inclusion in the mainline development?
>
> I quoted the post titled "Sucrose 0.81.1 Development Release".  The only
> purpose mentioned in that announcement, or in the webpage it pointed to,
> was: "test the release in jhbuild".  I concluded that what the title of the
> announcement meant by "Release" was "we have packaged the source so it can
> be given to jhbuild".  If that *was* the purpose of the announcement, then
> obviously jhbuild is an integral (i.e., mainline) part of the (development)
> release process.
>
> --------
>
>> Source code is always available, and releases are
>> released to everyone who can use them simultaneously.
>
> The point of my post (and its title) was that if I were living in an
> economically disadvantaged region somewhere, I might well have received a XO
> from some organization.  I'd be much less likely to have received facilities
> to be able to build from source.
>
>> you can get closer to the action (and contribute
>> useful bug reports) by installing daily builds.
>
> Yes, please -- what is the URI for where the daily __builds__ are kept which
> include Sucrose 0.81.1 ??
>
>
> mikus
>
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