Hi, Walter
This could lead to a most unproductive discussion. My main point is that
there should be focus on what new
educational opportunities we are offering to our users. I am saddened to
see such wonderful new activities developed using the web technology
which are totally unavailable to the majority of our user base.
As I said in response to Adam's poll: I think we may need to think in
terms of two efforts: development leading to
support of new software and hardware technologies and maintenance -
preserving the viability of the deployed hardware of which
the overwhelming majority are XO-1s.
Tony
On 03/19/2015 09:06 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
Tony,
I don't agree with your characterization of Sugar. We've never built
in any assumptions about connectivity into the GUI, core system, or
core activities (even the "web" activities all run off disk. The
decision to migrate to GTK3 was made for technical reasons -- which
you may disagree with -- but not because we were trying to cater to a
"developed" world. That said, there has been a degradation of
performance on the XO-1 hardware and we can and should try to make
improvements there. But I don't think it is realistic to languish in
long-abandoned, unsupported libraries: we as a community cannot
possibly support old versions of GTK, Gstreamer, and the countless of
components of Sugar 0.94. I believe it would be much less work and
much more fruitful even in the short term to invest in optimizing new
code to old hardware.
regards.
-walter
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