[Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sweets Distribution

[Aleksey Lim]

Hi all!

The Sweets Distribution is already mentioned on SL wiki, but it wasn't
publicly announced. So, that's it

== Summary ==

The major purposes for this distribution:

* If [[Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Usage#Sugar_via_Sweets|Sweets]] is
  more appropriate for personal usage, Sweets Distribution might be
  useful for Sugar distributors, e.g., special GNU/Linux distributions
  targeted on Sugar usage;
** Some times, it is mostly impossible to have recent Sugar release in
   not recent GNU/Linux distributions, e.g., LTS releases, and Sweets
   Distribution will be helpful in that case;
* Sweets Distribution is only about packaging
  [[Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Usage#Sugar_via_Sweets|Sugar sweets]],
  thus, it is zero-cost effort; the downside, it is impossible to add
  Sweets Distribution's packages to official repositories of GNU/Linux
  distributions.

This is a special, only Sugar, distribution. The key points that make
Sweets Distribution different to the rest of
[[Community/Distributions|Distributions]] are:

* Sweets Distribution is formed as a 3rd party repository, i.e., it is
  not regular GNU/Linux distribution;
* It [[#Releases|supports]] several GNU/Linux distributions at the same
  time;
* Packages from these repositories do not interfere with the rest of the
  system, e.g., it is possible to use Sugar from Sweets Distribution and
  Sugar from official repositories at the same time.

== Content ==

Sweets Distribution contains only Glucose, Fructose and Sugar Platform
dependencies. The reason to not include more activities:

* people can install activities at any time,
* it is easy to support Sweets Distribution based Sugar distribution
  with including activities that are more appropriate for the current
  use case.

== Releases ==

All releases are based on {{Code|dextrose/sugar}} sweet and contain
pristine Glucose and [[Dextrose]] patches.

The following list is a list of Sweets Distribution releases and
GNU/Linux repositories they support. The list of supported GNU/Linux
distributions is populated entirely on purpose, e.g., Ubuntu packages
are being used in [[Community/Distributions/Trisquel|Trisquel]]. Please,
[[Platform_Team/Sweets/Feedback|submit]] a request if you need more.

=== Sweets Distribution 0.88 ===

Stable [[Dextrose/2|Dextrose 2]] based releases:

* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:/0.88/Ubuntu-10.04/ Ubuntu-10.04]
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:/0.88/Ubuntu-10.10/ Ubuntu-10.10]

=== Sweets Distribution 0.94 ===

Testing [[Dextrose/2|Dextrose 3]] based releases:

* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:/0.94/Ubuntu-11.04/ Ubuntu-11.04]

== Installation ==

=== Ubuntu ===

Import repository gpg key. For example for
[http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:/0.94/Ubuntu-11.04/ Ubuntu-11.04]
repository, type in a terminal:

 curl http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:/0.94/Ubuntu-11.04/Release.key | sudo apt-key add -

Refresh information about repositories:

 sudo apt-get update

Install full Sweets Distribution, i.e., Sugar Shell and Fructose
activities:

 sudo apt-get install sweets-distribution

Install only Sugar Shell:

 sudo apt-get install sweets-sugar

== Usage ==

To run Sugar in emulator mode, select ''Education/Sugar''
application menu item or type in a terminal:

 sweets-sugar-emulator

To login into Sugar session, choose ''Sweets Distribution'' session
type.

== Feedback ==

* [http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/newticket?component=sweets Submit] your bug
  report or feature request.

-- 
Aleksey