[Sugar-devel] Draft Proposal - improve & maintain 12 sugar activities

[Spandan Barve]

Thanks for the reply quozl, I understand now and this will also help me
when porting simulate to python3 which is also a part of my proposal, I'll
also specify sugargame in my proposal, thanks.

On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 4:54 PM James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 01, 2023 at 04:21:59PM +0530, Spandan Barve wrote:
> > Thanks for the feedback Ibiam.
> > [...]
> > > Simulate activity sometimes crashes Sugar, what do you mean by crashing
> > Sugar?
> > I was not able to reproduce it but I do have the error saved. by
> > crash, I mean that the activity stops responding completely,
> > including the stop button and pressing CTRL+Q, I had to go back to
> > the journal and then remove the activity, after that I got an error
> > in the terminal.
> > here is the error : https://pastebin.com/1RcTvYHc
>
> It's a bug.
>
> The error showed Python 2.7.  Simulate is yet to be ported to Python
> 3.  The traceback can be ignored until that port is done.
>
> Simulate also needs a port to later Sugargame.  During the port of
> Sugargame a complete review of the event loop should be done, as
> Sugargame changed substantially.
>
> Simulate contains many inner event loops, with calls to wait, update,
> and tick, yet without checking for the stop button or Control/Q.
> That's probably the bug you saw.
>
> Simulate also uses an unconventional exit method.
>
> The Sugargame sample code shows how to do it instead.
>
> Simulate window can also vanish but the system process persist, which
> was first reported in 2018.
>
> https://github.com/devAbnull/simulate_sugargame/issues/1
>
> I could not tell if you used git HEAD or the latest release of
> Simulate, which predates git HEAD by some years.
>
> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4778
>
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