[Sugar-devel] Abandoning sugar-emulator

[Daniel Narvaez]

On 5 December 2012 04:03, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
> Looks like a good tool, but before we drop sugar-emulator,
> please give us time to use both tools, compare,
> and see what is working and what not.

FWIW, this is the same code that has been used by sugar-build since
the beginning. It as been spliitted out and refactored a lot recently
though.

If you find anything missing or not working as you'd expect let me know.

> By example, setting the scale is a feature (not a bug) :)

I meant it is a sugar "bug", not a sugar-emulator one. In the sense
that with gtk3 css support I think there are better ways to adapt to
different scren resolutions.

Anyway it's just an environment variable, it's already possible to
just define it and adding a command line switch would be trivial.

> sugar-build is great improvement over what we had before,
> but in the process we had a few disruptions by changes

I think in the last few weeks we had too much of these disruptions. I
created a testing branch a few days ago, non urgent changes will go
through it and the buildbot before being pushed on master. The main
reason of the disruptions is that I can only easily test many changes
by buildboting them, so I expect this will improve things a lot.

> and at times we loose hours building and rebuilding :)

This should *not* be the case. When it happens please please let me
know, if I don't see when and how things breaks, they will never
improve.

> Then, a fall back solution, until we have a new tool working is a good idea.

I think aside from instabilities that I may have introduced with the
refactoring, the new tool is working and not that new anymore. Please
give it a try and let me know if you find anything broken, missing or
that you don't like.

I understand your caution and this must not be your most pressing
priority. Though I really think we should only ship code that it's
used and tested. And my impression is that not many people are using
sugar-emulator anymore. Of course I might be wrong on that.