[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Etoys in Sugar was: SoaS v10 testing and a few minor issues with 0.100

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Tue Nov 19 18:33:54 EST 2013


>> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > - The "eToys" activity (version 116) does not start properly
>> >> >   then displays
>> >> >   « cannot find image file: squeak, did you run 'inisqueak-m' ? »
>>
>> This was ticketed here,
>> https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4415
>
> Ah. I even commented on that, apparently :)
>
>> >>
>> >> The eToys developers are basically unresponsive, I'm in two minds
>> >> whether we even bother to ship it because they can't be bothered doing
>> >> things like updating to the latest sugar by migrating away from
>> >> sugar-presence-service/ which was deprecated a long time ago.
>
> This is a rather non-trivial change to Etoys, whereas keeping the sugar-presence-service emulation around is pretty trivial.
>
> Yes it would be good to do it, no I have not had the time. Nor someone else.

You've had 3 odd years.

> But made Etoys work even if the emulated presence service is not around. So everything except collaborating should work fine.

How? what release, how was it communicated?

>> > But this looks like a different problem, right?
>
> Yes.

Care to elaborate?

Peter


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