[Sugar-devel] What should be the best set in order to develop for Sugar in Ubuntu, today ?

[laurent bernabe]

Thank you, I'm installing sweet on my ubuntu partition
(Apologizes for having said that Linux is the best programming os, it's up
to everybody to make it choice ^^)

2011/12/3 Aleksey Lim <alsroot at activitycentral.org>

> On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 10:24:24AM +0100, laurent bernabe wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I have a laptop computer that can run both windows 7 and ubuntu linux. My
> > question is :
> >
> >    - what is the best way to be prepeared to develop in linux, as it is
> the
> >    best paltform for programming ?
> >    - Should i install sugar ubuntu package ? Should i use Fedora instead
> ?
>
> Thats up to you, ie, your preferences regarding the GNU/Linux
> distributions. In some cases distributions have well packaged Sugar
> (Fedora), and you can just install these packages, in other cases
> might not.
>
> In any case, there is a distribution agnostic solution, Sweets[1].
> It is designed to work on top of major GNU/Linux distributions to
> provide to same Sugar software versions for all of them. For example, it
> should work on Ubuntu-11.10, providing recent (and a couple of other
> verisons) Sugar.
>
> Moreover, Sweets is designed to be useful[3] in development process as
> well. For example for Sugar Shell sweets, it looks like:
>
> * checkout sources
> * launch sources using, e.g., `sweets <PATH>` command
>
> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Usage
> [2]
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Usage#Sugar_via_Sweets
> [3]
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Packaging#Development_with_Sweets
>
> --
> Aleksey
>
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