[Sugar-devel] XO emulator for Linux

[Walther Neuper]

Hi Wade,

thank you very much for your help in getting started with activity 
development !

Best regards,
Walther

PS: We'll follow http://git.sugarlabs.org/ for having our "ReckonPrimer 
project" hosted, as you recommended a year ago. Since that time the 
project has become more  consolidated.

Wade Brainerd wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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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Walther Neuper                          Mailto: neuper at ist.tugraz.at
Institute for Software Technology          Tel: +43-(0)316/873-5728
University of Technology                   Fax: +43-(0)316/873-5706
Graz, Austria                             Home: www.ist.tugraz.at/neuper
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