[ASLO] ASLO build and deployment process (Jatin Dhankhar)

[Tony Anderson]

Hi Jatin,

There are two major elements to Sugar. The desktop interface - Sugar and 
the activities. ASLO is a library of these activities. Build only 
applies to Sugar.

For a non-XO version of Sugar, there are two easy choices: SOAS and 
Sugar on Ubuntu. For Ubuntu, install 14.04 or more recent version (I am 
using 16.04) and execute sudo apt-get install sucrose. For SOAS, 
download the image and dd it to a usb stick. It works as a livecd.

Another alternative is to build the 'development environment'. This 
environment is intended for developers who are working directly on PRs 
for Sugar modules.

In deploying Sugar, the only fully supported platform is the XO. The 
Ubuntu Sugar appears not to connect to networks and omits some of the 
essential activities. These are the essential eight: Browse, Record, 
Jukebox, Terminal, Log, Write, Read, and Image Viewer. Several of these 
such as Record provide access to hardware features of the platform such 
as the camera and microphone. Naturally, these are more difficult to 
support on general platforms.

There are two programming environments for Sugar activities: Python and 
Javascript. HelloWorld and HelloWeb are simple examples of activities in 
Python and Javascript, respectively. There is an excellent text 
available for download online:

Make Your Own Sugar Activities!
By James Simmons <http://www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep?contributorId=739770>

Make sure to get the second edition.

Tony

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> Hi,
>
> I have few questions about how ASLO is actually build and deployed in
> production. Build process is carried out by using Fabfile, I tried using
>   it and was not successful in building the sphinx ( since version used is
> 0.9.9.rc2 and current series is 2.x).
> Relevant pull request and issue
> PR -> https://github.com/sugarlabs/aslo/pull/2
> Issue -> https://github.com/sugarlabs/aslo/issues/1
>
> I am using Arch Linux and have installed all the necessary dependencies for
> development including mysql and postgres development libraries along with
> common development libraries. If anyone can point on how to successfully
> build the project that would help a lot.
> Some thread points out upgrading to new version of Sphinx but I wanted to
> mirror the current instance.
> Also project mentions something about Remora
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Update:Remora and wiki says it's no longer
> maintained.
> It quotes
>
>> Remora is no longer maintained. See AMO:Developers
>> <https://wiki.mozilla.org/AMO:Developers>.
>
> Also wanted to know more about how ASLO is deployed in production. What
> techniques are used ? What are the pain points that need to be addressed
> and tips on how to get started with it. If anyone is familiar with ASLO or
> a long time maintainer, can they point out on how to reproduce a successful
> build of ASLO (a documentation on how to run would be awesome)
>
> Thanks,
> Jatin Dhankhar
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