[Sugar-devel] Yet another project to port Sugar to Android ?

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Hi Andrews,

thanks a lot for the explanations, much appreciated! :-)

Cheers,
Christoph


On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Andrew McMillan <andrew at morphoss.com>wrote:

> On Sun, 2013-06-30 at 16:28 +0200, lionel at olpc-france.org wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> >
> > In a recent blog post on the OLPC association web site [1], I read
> > that there is a new (at least for me) project to port Sugar to
> > Android.
> >
> > Specifically, the post mentioned that the work is done by Morphoss
> > [2], a New Zealand company and that it allow to use Sugar on the XO
> > tablet.
>
> As is so often the case, the people who make the announcements do so
> without any pre-release testing on technical people :-)
>
> I've been responsible for the development of the XO Learning UI to date
> and it is our intention to include a "Sugar" service of some kind with
> that as soon as practicable.
>
> We plan to follow the "Sugar on HTML" design as closely as we can, with
> Simon & Manuel continuing to be involved in the work.
>
>
> > I wonder if anyone on this list know this work and in which way it
> > could be linked with the current work on HTML5 Sugar Framework?
>
> I expect our development at OLPC to implement that framework.
>
>
> > Of course it’s clear for me that it’s better to work together on the
> > same project instead of working on two different projects to do the
> > same thing !
>
> Absolutely!
>
> Personally I still need to properly understand at what stage the
> specification is, and how much work will it take to get it over the
> line.  I understand there is already an implementation for GTK in
> progress, and I hope we can get an Android implementation done alongside
> that as soon as possible.
>
> I hope this helps clarify things for everyone.
>
> Regards,
>                                         Andrew McMillan.
>
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Christoph Derndorfer

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