[SoaS] Sugar on a Stick Changing Engineering Direction

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 22.03.2010, at 10:19, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 21:34, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>> On 20.03.2010, at 03:19, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
>>> 
>>> Here's a draft kickstart file of what a slimmed-down SoaS release might
>>> look like. It includes a few core Activities that will help you get,
>>> debug, and ask questions about more Activities (Browse, Log, and IRC),
>>> as well as a few well-tested Activities with active upstreams that we
>>> think tend to "demo well" for a variety of audiences and contexts
>>> (young/adult audience, large/small audience, dev/user/teacher audience,
>>> hands-on-lab/demo-on-projector audience, etc).
>>> 
>>> http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/soas/repos/mainline/blobs/master/fedora-livecd-soas.ks
>> 
>> IMHO Etoys should be included as well.
>> 
>> It's well-tested, has an active upstream, and includes a couple nice demos. Or is there a specific reason to exclude it?
>> 
>> Besides, we have always told people that there is no need to download the Etoys activity from ASLO because it is just a tiny wrapper for the etoys executable that comes with the Sugar platform anyway.
> 
> Besides the Etoys _activity_ being installed or not, the etoys
> platofrm package needs to be installed if we are going to call it
> Sugar.
> 
> See here which are the packages that are to be expected in any Sugar
> installation:
> 
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.86/Platform_Components
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tomeu


If I read the kickstart file correctly, the etoys platform package already gets installed. Just the activity is missing.

- Bert -