On 12.01.2010, at 16:43, Jim Simmons wrote:
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> http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/ActivitiesGuideSugar-en-2010.01.11-23.05.32.pdf
Very nice, Jim!
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a Sugar activity should be written
in Python.
However, there are other means to go about that, and special circumstances may
lead a developer to consider alternatives.
In "WHAT IS A SUGAR ACTIVITY?" you make it sound like Python was a necessary
ingredient for all Sugar activities. That is not true, an activity *can* be
written without any bit of Python code. Not even "Python bindings" are needed.
See
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Low-level_Activity_API
"Activities can be written in any language, as long as it can connect to D-Bus
and provide an X11 interface."
While it's most convenient and also encouraged to write new activities in
Python, it is not mandatory. The Sugar API was carefully designed to allow
activity development in any language. There are a couple of non-Python
activities, most prominently Etoys which is even part of the Sugar platform,
emphasizing it is *not* Python-only. It would be nice if you could rephrase
that introductory section.
Other than that, very nice book. I love your style :)
- Bert -
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