[Sugar-devel] Several chapters of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" ready for review, feedback

[Jim Simmons]

Bert,

What you describe is what I meant by "simulating a mesh network".  In
other words, two instances of Sugar on the same network (maybe on the
same box) with no school server.  The last time I tried it (granted,
long ago) it didn't work.  I will of course try again when I write the
collaboration chapter.  As I said before, it's a programming project,
not just a book project.  I think I'll learn a lot before this project
is done.

James Simmons


On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> On 06.01.2010, at 20:50, Jim Simmons wrote:
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>> I too have not successfully simulated a mesh network.
>> I have always used a test school server.
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> It's a (common) misconception that you need a mesh or school server to collaborate under Sugar. The XO 1.5 doesn't even support (hardware-) mesh anymore. But any local network works just fine. And an activity doesn't need to care about the actual transport mechanism. It works even on just one machine, like with two jhbuild instances (different SUGAR_PROFILE env var).
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