[Sugar-devel] XO emulator for Linux

[Walther Neuper]

Hi Tomeu,

thank you for your mail !

You ask:
> Can you give us some more details about what do you plan to develop
> and how do you expect it to be deployed?
Christoph Derndorfer established a project in Austria, where 25 kids of 
8-9 years got XOs in 2008. And our Institute will contribute with a new 
activity requested by the teacher of these kids 
http://www.ist.tugraz.at/projects/isac/rp/reckonprimer.html

Last summer semester 1 student built a prototype, and there are several 
students (a selection from those listening cc) who want to contribute to 
this activity during this winter semester.
Time scheduled for this is not much more than 100h, thus it is too short 
to build up a complicated development environment, and too short for 
getting familiar with complicated things.
But we would like to have
# our repository somewhere at http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/
# a test-driven development, having something like
   /usr/share/activities/ReckonPrimer.activity
   /usr/share/activities/ReckonPrimer.tests
# ??? presently I have no more ideas what details to mention.
Most students have Linux (Ubuntu etc) on their computers, some Windows.

Any suggestions are welcome !

Walther

PS: About deployment: our present focus is the school teaching the 25 
kids mentioned. If our product will turn out interesting for others, we 
would be even more motivated !

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Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> Hi Walther,
>
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:56, Walther Neuper <neuper at ist.tugraz.at> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> following the instructions on
>>
>>       http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Emulating_the_XO/Quick_Start/Linux
>>
>> leads for Linux users to
>>
>>       olpc-redhat-stream-ship.2-devel_ext3.img.bz2
>>
>>            29-Feb-2008 19:49  206M
>>
>>    olpc-redhat-stream-ship.2-build-659-20080229_1949-devel_ext3.img.bz2 <http://xs-dev.laptop.org/cscott/olpc/streams/ship.2/latest/devel_ext3/olpc-redhat-stream-ship.2-build-659-20080229_1949-devel_ext3.img.bz2>
>>                                                29-Feb-2008 19:49  206M
>>
>>
>>
>> Christoph Derndorfer pointed out, that both are an outdated versions.
>> Where can we get the actual version for Linux ?
>> Or askel more generally: What kind of development environment would you
>> recommend for Linux ?
>>     
>
> There are many versions of Sugar, and the differences matter depending
> on what kind of development you want to do.
>
> Can you give us some more details about what do you plan to develop
> and how do you expect it to be deployed?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tomeu
>
>