[Sugar-devel] How to modify the sugar?

[Chihurumnaya Ibiam]

There's nothing to be sorry about, testing activities that way is fine and
a good method too.
Making changes to Sugar on the other hand is different.

-- 

Ibiam Chihurumnaya
ibiam at sugarlabs.org



On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 2:06 PM Sourabha G <sourabha.project at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks,
>
> > Just curios; how were you making changes to activities before now and
> how'd you setup a
> > dev environment for that?
>     I have set up a development environment using packaged Sugar
> environment
> <https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/blob/master/docs/development-environment.md#packaged-sugar>;
> I clone the activity, modify it in micro, nano or VSCode and run the
> activity from terminal-activity to test. This would work fine as I was
> working on Honey activities till now. But now, I wanted to modify Journal
> and this method wouldn't work as Journal is a part of Sugar desktop. Now I
> realised I need to install live build
> <https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/blob/master/docs/development-environment.md#sugar-live-build> for
> this.(sorry, I should've read the document properly)
>
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 5:41 PM Chihurumnaya Ibiam <ibiam at sugarlabs.org>
> wrote:
>
>> You can look at setting up a development environment
>> <https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/blob/master/docs/development-environment.md#sugar-live-build>
>> for how to setup sugar-live-build.
>>
>> Just curios; how were you making changes to activities before now and
>> how'd you setup a
>> dev environment for that?
>>
>> --
>>
>> Ibiam Chihurumnaya
>> ibiam at sugarlabs.org
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 12:36 PM Sourabha G <sourabha.project at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>  How to test the modified source of sugar from within Sugar DE? I cloned
>>> the sugar repo but not sure how to test the modification.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
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>>
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