[Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] SugarPlatform-0.84.0 on Caixa Mágica the Magellan project

[Aleksey Lim]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 01:53:48PM +0000, Pedro Pessoa wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:38:46AM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:31:28AM +0000, Paulo Trezentos wrote:
> > > Hi Aleksey and all,
> > >
> > > We have tested with success the new version of the packages.
> > > In this moment, we are focused in get Sugar to work as a collaborative  
> > > tool for the classroom.
> > > I believe this would turn Sugar in a "killer application" for Magallaen  
> > > in Linux Caixa Mágica Mag and people would start to install it in large  
> > > scale.
> > >
> > > The idea is to put Sugar to communicate with WiFi (ad-hoc) and Telepathy.
> > > If I remember correctly, it is needed DBUS 1.1. Any other hint?
> > > Pedro Pessoa is the person responsible for this task.
> > is it ok for Mag to start NetworkMangaer at startup
> 
> You mean Gnome NM?
yup, http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/NetworkManager

> Magalhães has it's own NM, inherited from Mandriva. It has been the
> basis for connectivity management on the project. I would give it some
> though before trying to replace it by something else. Instead, maybe we can
> integrate it into Sugar somehow.
there could be a problem:
sugar-0.84 uses NM-0.7's interface but NM-0.7 requires dbus-1.1,
sugar repo has dbus-1.1 but uses it only for session bus within sugar session

Don't know how it could affect stability of the whole system if
system bus will be dbus-1.1 and clients(non-sugar, since sugar's components
were built against dbus-1.1) will use dbus-1.0 clients

> How does Sugar integrate with NM currently? I don't have it on my test
> machines.
sugar uses NM only in RO manner(to collect info about IP, or so)

-- 
Aleksey