[Sugar-devel] Initial Release: Sugar packages 0.116 for Arch Linux

[Srevin Saju]

I have added python2-sugar support for helping out python2 based sugar
activities Arch Linux.
It is under the filename
```
sugar-toolkit2-gtk3-0.116-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
```
Release 0.116 updated on
https://github.com/srevinsaju/sugar-arch/releases/tag/0.116


On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 8:16 PM Srevin Saju <srevin03 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Sebastian. I will remove the empy package, yes I guess its a build
> time dependency, but it seems like the older PKGBUILD by Ballo Gyorfy used
> it not as build dependency, but I wait for Quozl or someone else to
> confirm. I am currently adding python2 support to sugar2-toolkit-gtk3,
> unreleased. Thanks for testing. Hope other activities work satisfactorily.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 7:59 PM Sebastian Silva <sebastian at fuentelibre.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Okay, I was able to run Calculate from the Git repository.
>>
>> I suggest you to remove package python3-empy from your release, as it's
>> a build-time dependency and it seems not to be needed for running Sugar
>> or activities?
>>
>> Also the .INSTALL problem with your package seems to be unrelated to
>> the issue you posted (but explains why you made the package).
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sebastian
>>
>>
>> El jue, 06-02-2020 a las 19:47 +0300, Srevin Saju escribió:
>> > Great, thanks for the update. In this package, I have dropped support
>> > for Python2 activities, (I have forgotten to mention that), as
>> > python2 support has become deprecated, I have moved all the activity
>> > support to python3, please see if any python3 based activities work
>> > on the new system. I am currently working on Python2 support too,
>> > will update you shortly.
>> >
>> > Python3 activities:
>> > All Sugar Fructose Activities, latest sources from git
>> > All Sugar Activities on GitHub, with Port to Python3 PR merged
>> > Thanks again. Looking forward for more updates.
>> >
>> > On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 7:34 PM Sebastian Silva <
>> > sebastian at fuentelibre.org> wrote:
>> > > Thanks,
>> > > I installed the remaining packages and the native python-empy
>> > > package.
>> > > While Sugar starts ok, activities fail with:
>> > >
>> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
>> > >   File "/usr/bin/sugar-activity", line 3, in <module>
>> > >     from sugar3.activity import activityinstance
>> > > ImportError: No module named sugar3.activity
>> > >
>> > > Getting closer...
>> > > Regards,
>> > > Sebastian
>> > >
>> > > El jue, 06-02-2020 a las 19:16 +0300, Srevin Saju escribió:
>> > > > Thanks for testing, Sebastian. This is because, the python-empy
>> > > > package on Fedora Distribution and Arch Linux distribution works,
>> > > by
>> > > > only creating the module in python. After installing the native
>> > > > Fedora or Arch Linux, we would be able use empty by
>> > > > ```
>> > > > python3
>> > > > >>> import empy
>> > > > ```
>> > > > But, Ubuntu distributions have a special symlink to empy, so If a
>> > > > manual build goes on, I guess it searches in /usr/bin, for empy
>> > > or
>> > > > empy3, although it's installed as a python module, it is not
>> > > detected
>> > > > on build. this was workaround'd in the easiest way by me on
>> > > Fedora:
>> > > > * convert the working DEB (Ubuntu version) to RPM.
>> > > > on Arch Linux
>> > > > * convert the working DEB to PKG (using debtap)
>> > > > Installing the modified python-empy version derived from the Deb
>> > > > package, helps to create the symlink without changing the package
>> > > > itself.
>> > > > See https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/issues/896 for information
>> > > on
>> > > > the link.
>> > > >
>> > > > Finally, about the error, the error can be temporarily ignored
>> > > until
>> > > > it's fixed on the #896 on sugar repository, the package is
>> > > installed
>> > > > successfully, you can proceed with the rest of the steps.
>> > > >
>> > > > If a solution for it is found in future on #896, it can be
>> > > removed
>> > > > the usual way, removing all of the remnants of the installation.
>> > > > Alternatively, you may also try other solution, but this method
>> > > has
>> > > > been confirmed to be working by Markismus, another Arch User for
>> > > > Sugar
>> > > >
>> > > > Please let me know if it indeed works for you and you could login
>> > > to
>> > > > your Sugar Desktop. Great Help.
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > On Thu, 6 Feb 2020, 16:57 Sebastian Silva, <
>> > > sebastian at fuentelibre.org
>> > > > > wrote:
>> > > > > Hi Srevin,
>> > > > > I downloaded the packages and tried installing them. As
>> > > instructed
>> > > > > I installed python3-empy-3.3.2-1-any.pkg.tar.xz first, but then
>> > > I
>> > > > > got this error:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > :: Processing package changes...
>> > > > > (1/1) installing python3-
>> > > > > empy
>> > > [######################
>> > > > > ################] 100%
>> > > > > /tmp/alpm_oAGVZn/.INSTALL: line 21: syntax error near
>> > > unexpected
>> > > > > token `}'
>> > > > > /tmp/alpm_oAGVZn/.INSTALL: line 21: `}'
>> > > > > :: Running post-transaction hooks...
>> > > > > (1/1) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Looking forward to test again.
>> > > > > Regards,
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Sebastian
>> > > > >
>> > > > > El jue, 06-02-2020 a las 16:24 +0300, Srevin Saju escribió:
>> > > > > > An Initial release for
>> > > > > > * Sugar 0.116
>> > > > > > * Sugar Artwork 0.116
>> > > > > > * Sugar Datastore 0.116
>> > > > > > * Sugar Toolkit GTK3 0.116
>> > > > > > * Sugar runner 0.110 (master)
>> > > > > > * gwebsockets 0.7
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > has been published as prerelease to
>> > > > > > https://github.com/srevinsaju/sugar-arch/releases/tag/0.116.
>> > > > > > Some developer filed a deletion request on the python3
>> > > packages
>> > > > > > on the AUR, as it was claimed to be a duplicate of the
>> > > original
>> > > > > > version (sugar 0.114 pkg by Ballo Gyorgy). If it works good
>> > > for
>> > > > > > any of the Arch Users, it can be pushed to the community
>> > > packages
>> > > > > > with the permission of Ballo Gyorgy.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > _______________________________________________
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>> > > > > >
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>> > > > > >
>> > >
>>
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