[Sugar-devel] Vision

[Tony Anderson]

Sam

I appreciate your constructive comments.

I am sorry that he responded to an offer of help with a derogatory 
statements addressed at me and indeed, I need to learn to ignore them.

James is on 13.2.7, I am on 13.2.5. There is nothing that can be done 
about that until this summer. I do have an XO-1 with an early release of 
what was then called Sugar (now OLPC OS, I suppose). With an SD card 
image, I could compare the performance of the two. If James supplied the 
image, I suspect he would be more confident of the results than if it 
was dependent on my manual patches.

James seems perpetually concerned that I am not using the latest release 
(my XO-1 is recycled from a user who was using in 2015 software from 
2008, not untypical in the field). Unlike oplc/sugar, my cycle is at 
best, annual. As he must limit his commitments based on the demands on 
his time, so must I.

Just to repeat: I accept the images from olpc/sugarlabs, modify them to 
meet the perceived needs of the deployments I am working with,
and install them on the local laptops and school server. I am not a 
developer. I am a client. If there is community interest in what I am 
doing, I am happy to share.

Tony

On 04/21/2016 12:43 PM, Sam Parkinson wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Tony Anderson 
> <tony_anderson at usa.net> wrote:
>> Hi, Dave
>>
>> I couldn't agree more. I offered to help support a test James 
>> requested. His response was an attack on me. It is really hard to 
>> keep focus on the
>> positive underlying discussions. Again, I should have applied the 
>> 24hour rule. I apologize.
>
> Tony, you should apply the 24 hour rule again before you call James's 
> response an "attack".
>
> Anyway, I think that James was trying to inform you about the wonder 
> that is a patch.  Creating, uploading, dowloading and imaging is a 
> hard thing.  Applying a patch is something that can be done with 
> "curl" and then "patch -p1" or the similar.  If you want to be even 
> fancier, you can build and distribute an rpm.  I don't know too much 
> about deployments, but if running a command is harder than installing 
> an image, I think you might want to investigate some better tooling.
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
>>
>>
>> In this case the need for an image is also specific. By having an 
>> image on an SD card, my XO-1 can retain its early installed release 
>> for comparison with the sd card install.
>>
>> Tony

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