[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel, Greenfeld)

[Tony Anderson]

Hi, Walter

This could lead to a most unproductive discussion. My main point is that 
there should be focus on what new
educational opportunities we are offering to our users. I am saddened to 
see such wonderful new activities developed using the web technology 
which are totally unavailable to the majority of our user base.

As I said in response to Adam's poll: I think we may need to think in 
terms of two efforts: development leading to
support of new software and hardware technologies and maintenance - 
preserving the viability of the deployed hardware of which
the overwhelming majority are XO-1s.

Tony

On 03/19/2015 09:06 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
> Tony,
>
> I don't agree with your characterization of Sugar. We've never built
> in any assumptions about connectivity into the GUI, core system, or
> core activities (even the "web" activities all run off disk. The
> decision to migrate to GTK3 was made for technical reasons -- which
> you may disagree with -- but not because we were trying to cater to a
> "developed" world. That said, there has been a degradation of
> performance on the XO-1 hardware and we can and should try to make
> improvements there. But I don't think it is realistic to languish in
> long-abandoned, unsupported libraries: we as a community cannot
> possibly support old versions of GTK, Gstreamer, and the countless of
> components of Sugar 0.94. I believe it would be much less work and
> much more fruitful even in the short term to invest in optimizing new
> code to old hardware.
>
> regards.
>
>
> -walter