[Sugar-devel] Introduction

[Gary Martin]

Hi Sascha,

On 30 Jan 2011, at 12:10, Sascha Silbe <sascha-ml-reply-to-2011-1 at silbe.org> wrote:

> 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.

Thanks for the hint! Sounds like a nice improvement to my usual work flow :-) I'll make sure to give it a run through.

Regards,
--Gary

> 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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