[Sugar-devel] Progress on getting sugar-runner working again

[James Cameron]

That's great.  When you're happy with the changes, you can make a pull request.

On Sun, Mar 03, 2024 at 09:39:29AM -0600, James Simmons wrote:
> James,
> 
> I didn't understand the purpose in forking before but now I do. A new fork with
> my changes in a branch is here:
> 
> [1]https://github.com/jdsimmons/sugar-runner/tree/python3
> 
> I updated the README with suggestions on how to test.
> 
> I just tried:
> 
> sugar-activity3 GetIABooksActivity.GetIABooksActivity
> 
> and it worked. I had no idea it would. I haven't worked on Sugar Activities
> since 2014. After I wrote E-Book Enlightenment I went down a rabbit hole where
> I prepared lots of books for archive,org and Project Gutenberg, wrote and self
> published a memoir of my youth among the Hare Krishnas, figured out how to use
> LaTeX to bring public domain books back into print and self published a bunch
> of them until Amazon put a stop to it, and even started a novel.
> 
> I would have stayed in that rabbit hole if a bright eight year old boy had not
> decided that he wanted an old computer running Linux I had intended to give to
> his older brothers.
> 
> As for why I still want to get sugar-runner working, it is because it gives me
> the whole Sugar environment. After I use Get IA Books to download books I need
> to check the books out in the Journal and make sure they got in there OK and
> are readable. Activities using collaboration really need the whole environment
> working and making screenshots that look like what the Activity looks like on
> an XO laptop is easy with sugar-runner.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> James Simmons
> 
> On Sat, Mar 2, 2024 at 11:45 PM James Cameron <[2]quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> 
>     On Sat, Mar 02, 2024 at 08:14:20PM -0600, James Simmons wrote:
>     > [...]
>     > If someone wants to try this out I could post a branch with my
>     > changes to GitHub if I was given needed permissions to do so.
>     >
>     > For now, I'm stuck.
> 
>     Fork the repository, push your branch to your fork, then create a pull
>     request with details on how to try it out.
> 
>     Also, I'm curious, what does Sugar Runner get you that running
>     "sugar-activity3" doesn't get you?
> 
> References:
> 
> [1] https://github.com/jdsimmons/sugar-runner/tree/python3
> [2] mailto:quozl at laptop.org