[Sugar-devel] Introduction

[Sascha Silbe]

Excerpts from James Simmons's message of Sat Jan 29 16:22:49 +0100 2011:

> The book "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" has some suggestions on
> development environments and many other topics:
> 
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/ActivitiesGuideSugar/Introduction

[...]

In the "What About Using sugar-jhbuild?" section you write:

>> When you're done you'll have an up to date test environment that you
>> can run as an alternative to sugar-emulator.

sugar-jhbuild is an alternative to installing Sugar from distro
packages, nothing more or less.

In order to run Sugar inside an already-running desktop system (very
similar to running Linux inside a VM, just at the desktop system level
instead of at the operating system level) you can use sugar-emulator, no
matter how you installed it (distro packages or sugar-jhbuild).

Similarly, you can run Sugar in "native" mode no matter whether you got
it from distro packages or using sugar-jhbuild.

It would be nice if you could clarify this in your book, because this
misunderstanding has been a major source of confusion in the past (and
probably still is in the present).

Sascha

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