[Sugar-devel] is olpcgames obsolete?

[Gary C Martin]

On 28 Jun 2009, at 09:59, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:

> 2009/6/25 Asaf Paris Mandoki <asafpm at gmail.com>:
>> Wondering around sugarlabs wiki I found the way to save the current  
>> state of an activity to the journal here
>>
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Almanac/sugar.activity.activity
>>
>> The physics and x2o activities are based on olpcgames.activity  
>> which handles reading/writing files to the journal in a rather  
>> strange way. Is olpcgames obsolete?
>
> I think that rather than obsolete, it's unmaintained.
>
>> I've found much more documentation for sugar.activity than for  
>> olpcgames.activity. Will it be a good idea to port the Physics  
>> activity from using olpcgames modules to use the sugar modules?
>
> May be, though rather than the sugar modules, you would be using
> mostly PyGTK plus some of the widgets in sugar.* (optionally). I don't
> know pygames myself so I cannot directly answer your question.

Have no good answer here either. But, I vaguely remember olpcgames/ 
pygames being used as this was part of some game jam/sprint event  
template that was built to help get folks up and running quickly  
(making physics based games). Physics, X2o and Bridge, I think, were  
the working Activities to come out of this effort.

FWIW: I notice on the fedora-olpc-list at redhat.com that olpcgames has  
just come up, for different reasons, regarding some stalled bug  
tickets there. Here's a little snippet from the thread:

On 28 Jun 2009, at 19:57, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On 28 Jun 2009, at 15:25, Fabian Affolter wrote:

>> One reason is that some of those packages need python-olpcgames to  
>> work.
>> This packages is missing for a long time. The person who made this  
>> package
>> is not answering mails and there is no build.  So python-olpcgames  
>> needs a
>> review again, but first we need to pack it.
>>
>> It would help if there is a release tarball of olpcgames.  But I  
>> guess that
>> the only way to do at the moment is to work with a vcs checkout.
>
> Thanks for the update. Have you filed a bug report against the
> python-olpcgames package? If so what is the bug number? The
> python-olpcgames is in Fedora as can be seen in the package cvs [1].
> I'll have a look at it this week to see what need to be resurrected to
> get it back into the main builds.

The ticket was related to the Maze Activity:

	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467641

Regards,
--Gary