[Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] SugarPlatform-0.84.0 on Caixa Mágica the Magellan project

[David Farning]

Great job Aleksey,

Let's bring Sean Daly, our marketing guy, into the conversation so he
can work on a marketing plan going forward.

Sean,
For a very brief backstory.

Magellan is a Portuguese firm with a contract to deploy on the order
of 1 million locally made classmate based netbooks to children in
Portugal.  One of the original concerns with OLPC was the fact the the
XO could not be manufacture locally as a catalysis to the local high
tech economy.

The Magellan will be capable of booting Caixa Mágica.

Aleksey Lim and Tomeu have been working on packing Sugar for CM.

thanks
david

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:17 AM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> The Sugar Platform is a set of versioned components on which activity
> authors can rely when targeting their activities to run on a particular
> Sugar version [1].
>
> On Mag it lives in task-sugar meta-package [2] and includes:
> - sugar-fructose >= 0.84.0
> - sugar-glucose >= 0.84.0
> - gstreamer0.10-plugins-base
> - gstreamer0.10-espeak >= 0.3
> - gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
> - libxml2-python
> - python-numpy
> - olpcsound
> - python-olpcsound
> - pygame
>
> It means that user could download activities from activities.sugarlabs.org
> and it won't be failed due to missed dependencies.
>
> In current release Xephyr issue was fixed thus sugar could be run from current
> session with sugar-emulator.
>
> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Tomeu/Platform_0.84
> [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Magalh%C3%A3es#Installation
>
> --
> Aleksey
>