On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson@usa.net> wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite"><div class="plaintext" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apparently, it is another victim to 'deprecation'. Possibly the most
important feature of Sugar today is that it is based on Python 2.7 which is
not being 'enhanced'.</div></blockquote><br>What do you mean? ASLO is based on very old technology, which is going to get broken.<div><br></div><div>10/10 would love to improve ASLO. I actually did an "ASLO2" effort a while ago, although that failed for reasons that are documented on my blog. I would be up for using a AppStream and PackageKit based stack to reinvent the activity store experience though.<br>
<div><br></div><div>Re Sugar using python2; a port to python3 was previously investigated as part of last years GSoC. We can port it baring our telepathy-python dependency. (FYI there has not been a commit for telepathy salut or gabble in the past 2 years. Dead upstream? Still, there are so many bugs that affect sugar. 10/10 would love to port collab to using something like Matrix.Org - the spec is *way* is more easy to understand than telepathy. Telepathy seems much more complex than Sugar needs - we don't need abstract multi-backend support.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Sam</div>