[Sugar-devel] XO emulator for Linux

[Wade Brainerd]

Hi Walther,
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Resources links to options for
setting up Activity development environment on Windows, Linux and MacOS X.
 Briefly:  For Linux hosts you can use native packages, jhbuild or a virtual
machine. The best Windows and Mac option is VirtualBox. The resources page
also links to various tutorials, wiki pages, and other references that are
useful when learning Activity development.

Regarding automated testing, please check the Sugarbot project at
http://code.google.com/p/sugarbot/.  It looks like it's been idle for about
a year, and I'm not sure what stage of completion it reached (who was the
mentor  btw?), but it may make a good starting point!

Best regards,
Wade

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Walther Neuper <neuper at ist.tugraz.at> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
>
>
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