Albert, > > Again, this is not a criticism toward Reinier, but rather toward the > > fact that keeping up with the rate of change that Sugar and the UI > > guideline is not something a volunteer developer can easily cope with. > > Calculate is in Python, isn't it? Sugar and UI changes are deadly > for the non-Python stuff.
And why? If you follow the development in past several months, you probably found that the difference of language used to write an activity has very little correlation with when and how often the activity stopped working. (A high-level messaging/component model usually cuts the dependency to a particular implementation language.) It seems that what it matters is *person* than language. In that regard, we should give Bert (Freudenberg), who has been doing the Sugar integration part of Etoys, big kudos. He's been corresponding with core developers, not only keeping up with the changes but also give back a lot of good suggestions. Take a look at the history of "Sugar on Fedora 7" page on the wiki. (http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Sugar_on_Fedora_7&action=history) You can almost tell that he is pretty much the only guy who is interested in supporting outside developers. Yes, he is dedicated to do so. That certainly does the trick. -- Yoshiki _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel