[Sugar-devel] Help-21 fails to start

[Tony Anderson]

Thanks. I'll keep trying to see if I can find a path.

Tony

On 3/7/19 2:47 PM, James Cameron wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Sugar-devel mailing list
>>>> Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
>>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Sugar-devel mailing list
>> Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel