[Sugar-devel] Help-21 fails to start

[James Cameron]

Yes, as I said, both Sphinx and "make html" are needed before making
the bundle.

On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 02:43:33PM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote:
> I am trying to install help-20 (from Godiard's repository). I downloaded the
> zip and put it in an XO-1.75 in /home/olpc/Documents. I then unzipped it and
> ran python setup.py dist_xo. I then installed the activity via
> sugar-install-bundle. However, it behaves as before.
> 
> I am speculating that what is expected to happen is that the html versions
> of the documentation are to be created via the make html. I am speculating
> that this make command depends on an installed python-sphinx package. I was
> able to install the Sphinx on my Ubuntu laptop by pippy. However, pippy does
> not appear to be installed on the XO's.
> 
> My next step is to try the make html to see if it generates the html
> version.
> 
> Tony
> 
> 
> On 3/6/19 11:25 AM, James Cameron wrote:
> >Thanks for your interest.
> >
> >There's no Help-21 yet.  Latest is Help-20.
> >
> >https://github.com/godiard/help-activity is the most recent source
> >code, not https://github.com/sugarlabs/help-activity.  The latter is
> >an informative fork.
> >
> >There should be no html/index.html file in the repository, as it is a
> >file generated by building.  The repository is not an activity bundle,
> >but source code for building an activity bundle.  The instructions to
> >build the bundle include
> >http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Help/Contribute#How_to_get_freshest_Help_sources,
> >in particular the dependencies such as Sphinx must be installed, then
> >use "make html", and the dist_xo target of setup.py
> >
> >You'll also see that setup.py is quite different to other activities.
> >
> >I'm yet to make a new release of Help since v20 in 2015, but it is on
> >my list to do.  In deploying it as v20.1 on OLPC laptops, I maintain a
> >separate branch, and patch the Sugar version to match what is
> >installed.
> >
> >https://github.com/godiard/help-activity/issues has a list of issues.
> >
> >On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 10:41:11AM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote:
> >>The version of the Help activity in github.com/sugarlabs has only an es
> >>folder in the html folder. It fails to start when trying to display
> >>html/inde.html (not found).
> >>
> >>Tony
> >>
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