[Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sugar Services

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 19:12, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> Happy New Year to all,
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Services

I don't think I fully understand your plan with services yet, but when
you feel this is ready to receive feedback from deployments, ask me,
though I haven't had always success with that...

Regards,

Tomeu

> It is the first version Sugar Services infrastructure which is ready
> to test or use in simple cases(see Known Issues[1]).
>
> In short terms it's about adding decentralized method to support
> various activity dependencies. See what Services is[2] and is not[3].
>
>
> There are also guides for:
>
> * activity developers
>  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Documentation_Team/Services/Activity_Developers_Guide
>
> * service developers
>  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Documentation_Team/Services/Service_Developers_Guide
>
>
> Examples:
>
> * CartoonBuilder-9
>  http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4037
>  uses Toolkit[4] service which provides new toolbar design for 0.82+
>
> * Speak-12
>  http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4038
>  uses gst-plugins-espeak[5] service which lets activity use gst plugin
>  instead of executing espeak command on XO-1
>
> In all examples the only change(except bundling 0sugar-launch, since
> saccharin is not part of Sugar Platform) is adding new string to
> activity.info:
>
>   requires = toolkit; gst-plugins-espeak
>
>
> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Documentation_Team/Services/Activity_Developers_Guide#Known_issue
> [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Services#Workflows
> [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Services#What_is_Sugar_Services_not.3F
> [4] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Services/Toolkit
> [5] http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/gst-plugins-espeak
>
> --
> Aleksey
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