[IAEP] Sugar packages for non-mainstream distros

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> pygame is an interesting case in point of where a little bit of Sugar
> glue could go a long ways towards device interoperability. As was
> posted to this list earlier today, many pygame developers are
> hardcoding the screen resolution to 1200x900 (or 750, to account for
> the toolbar). This breaks their activities on non-OLPC-XO devices and
> it would be easy enough to change the habit to include a call to get
> the actual screen resolution, which can vary all over the place.

Yes, I'm a bit worried about pygame because it's used in a lot of
activities but it has been out of the radar for Sugar developers.
Perhaps we need to take action and check it's well packaged for the
platforms we care about, take bugs about it, make sure it's easy for
its users to do scalable UIs, etc?

How we could get some help about it?

Regards,

Tomeu

> -walter
>
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>>> as far as know, altlinux was based on Mandriva, but at present there are
>>> lots differences (but not sure I'm not RPM guy:)
>>
>> Hmm, I would expect for most of those differences not having a direct
>> impact on Sugar, though may be wrong...
>>
>> Please keep us posted on your progresses, would be nice if all the
>> people doing rpms for the different distros could share as much of
>> their work as possible.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:42:58AM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>>>> > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:05:16AM -0800, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>>>> >> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>>>> >> > just some thoughts and some practices (specific?) of Sugar packaging process
>>>> >> > http://sugarlabs.org/go/DeploymentTeam/jhconvert
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Can you add something about testing these packages and reporting bugs
>>>> >> in Sugar on specific distributions?
>>>> >
>>>> > About Gentoo, in fact, I'll be very surprised if Gentoo is popular among sugar
>>>> > end users, but I use Gentoo and furthermore it helps me test sugar in various
>>>> > environments: I've built sugar (both 0.82 and 0.83), at first sight, it works
>>>> > - does basic operations (no errors in logs)
>>>> >
>>>> > But my current focus is altlinux - its a local Russian distro. The main purpose
>>>> > of porting sugar on altlinux is the fact that it takes part in state-program "FOSS
>>>> > for schools" - there is school-specific distro. I've uploaded sugar-fructose to
>>>> > unstable altlinux's repo (the same status like on Gentoo) and work now on Russian
>>>> > localization (whole this week). After back porting to school branch I suspect
>>>> > broader feedback
>>>>
>>>> Sounds very good, please keep us posted of your progress (and problems!).
>>>>
>>>> Just to check, altlinux is based on Mandriva, right? If so, how is
>>>> being coordinated the packaging between the different mandriva-like
>>>> distros?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Tomeu
>>>>
>>>
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