[Sugar-devel] Introduction

[Sascha Silbe]

Excerpts from Gary Martin's message of Sat Jan 29 16:09:43 +0100 2011:

> > I don't have an XO laptops but I do have a VirtualBox Fedora and Ubuntu VMs running sugarlabs. What do you use as a Python editor- I was hoping to use eclipse but I have used a basic introduction to VIM in my classes so it can be anything. I played around in the SugarLabs Pippy editor but I was hoping that I could write another machine and import.
> 
> The first things I usually yum install to a new Sugar image are vim and git, that way I can git clone an Activity repository into the ~/Activities directory, tinker with it using vim, and easily git commit and git push changes back to the main repository after testing. If I'm going to be making large source changes or starting something new I'll often just work on my Mac using Xcode (my source editor of choice) and scp the Activity directory over to various Sugar builds for testing.

FWIW, I'm increasingly using sshfs to hack on code that's inside a VM.
sshfs allows you to "mount" a "remote" file system that's accessible via
ssh/sftp and access it as if it were a "local" file system. That way you
can use all the editing / VCS / whatever tools you're used to, without
having to install them inside the VM. Because the tools are running on
your "real" machine, they work as usual - including things like
copy&paste across applications (which requires special "guest additions"
in VirtualBox and doesn't work at all in KVM).

IIRC I've successfully used a special port of sshfs on MacOS X some time
ago. There are also tools for Windows that seem to provide something
similar, but I haven't tried them myself.

Sascha

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