[Sugar-devel] Activity platform discussion

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 02:00, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On activities.sugarlabs.org we are able to say what platforms a
> particular activity supports.
>
> Note that this is in *addition* to describing the Sugar application
> version (0.82, 0.84, etc).  So the platform support has more to do
> with Python version (2.5 vs 2.6), available system packages,
> architecture, etc.

If the Sugar platform is defined as "what an activity author can
expect to find already installed", then we need to define the python
version in it. And I guess that python 2.6 (along with the deprecated
json modules) should be part of SP 0.84.

In that regard, Soas-1 isn't fully implementing any Sugar Platform,
and should considered broken from that POV.

Regards,

Tomeu


> Currently we have:
>
> OLPC Software Release 8.2.0 (Build 767)
> Sugar on a Stick 1 (F10 based)
> Sugar on a Stick 2 (F11 based)
>
> Questions:
>
> - Are there other OLPC builds we should add to the list?
>
> 656?
> Others?
>
> - How should we describe the distributions such as Caixa Magica?
>
> We now have the "Sugar Platform 0.84" package set which is present in
> many distributions, so alsroot suggested that we simply advertise
> support for "SP 0.84" and drop the idea of platforms.  But there are
> differences like Python 2.5 (SoaS1) vs 2.6 (SoaS2) that are
> independent of the SP.
>
> My thought is to add one more platform: "Linux with Sugar Platform
> 0.84" to cover these.
>
> -Wade
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