[Sugar-devel] activity sandbox

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 2012-08-28, at 15:53, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:49 AM, blekros sugar <blekros.sugar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'd like to use Eclipse with PyDev on Windows to try to build activities.
>> 
>> Has the Sugar shell been ported to Windows (x86) or Android or iOS or as a chrome / firefox plugin so that I can use my existing environments without VMWare or VirtualBox?
>> 
> 
> No. Sugar run in a linux os.

Right. Sugar activities do not only require the Sugar Shell to run. They are full-fledged Linux applications that follow a few additional conventions to function well in Sugar. But that means that they need a full Linux + X11 operating system stack to work.

>> I can't find anything resembling an object model, or class diagram that shows the architectural breakdown of Sugar.   Where to look?
> 
> Sadly, our documentation is not in a good shape.
> Today, the best doc is the code itself. 

Well, there still is *some* documentation for activity authors.

We have a nice book:

	http://en.flossmanuals.net/make-your-own-sugar-activities/

And for a more low-level understanding there is this documentation page:

	http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Low-level_Activity_API

More documentation resources are listed at

	http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Resources

- Bert -