[Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2013-05-08

[Manuel Quiñones]

2013/5/8 Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>:
> On 05/08/2013 04:22 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote:
> [...]
>
>>>
>>> 8. Daniel Narveaz reports that "the initial bits of the HTML activities
>>> work has landed. It should now be relatively easy to start writing an
>>> activity."
>>>
>>> (1) You'll need the latest Sugar development environment [6].
>>> (2) Then open a shell and move to the source directory:
>>>   make shell
>>>   cd source
>>> (3) Create an activity based on a template
>>>   volo create my-activity ./sugar-html-template
>>> (4) Install the activity for development as usual
>>>   cd my-activity
>>>   python setup.py dev
>>> (5) To interact with the platform you will need to add the
>>> sugar-core-html
>>> library to your activity
>>>   volo add -f ./sugar-html-core
>>
>>
>> I guess that should be: "volo add -f ../sugar-html-core/" from with in
>> the my-activity directory.
>>
>> Once you have the activity running you can then use "Ctrl+Shift+i" to
>> inspect the code [1].
>>
>> Great work everyone,
>>     Simon
>>
>> [1] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2013-May/042881.html
>
>
> The activity carries a copy of 'sugar-html-graphics' [1]. This is done in
> order to be able to run the activity outside of Sugar.
>
> This means that if there are changes, like the recent one [2] and you
> created your activity before you have to update that copy.
>
> The good news is that updating is easy: "volo -f updates" does update all
> the deps for you. An activity author should run it before a release.

Yes, "volo add -f LIBRARY" updates the library.  And "volo add -f"
(without the library parameter) updates all of them.  Is not clear in
their doc:

https://github.com/volojs/volo/blob/master/commands/add/doc.md

>
> Hope this gives some background info,
>    Simon
>
> [1] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-html-graphics
> [2]
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-html-graphics/commit/1ac439726c0ab0fe41b1a161fc9155fe553c571a
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Sugar-devel mailing list
> Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel



--
.. manuq ..