(I cc'd the sugarlabs lists for repliers but am not on them.)
Simon Schampijer wrote:
Dear Sugar Community,
This is Release Candidate 1 for the upcoming 0.84 Release - see [1] for
more details. Only two more weeks to go in this release cycle. Please
test this release
How? I have an XO-1 with developer key. Back in January Gary C Martin
wrote in Re: [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.83.4 Development Release ,
FWIW: I've been reasonably successfully running joyride 2631 on an XO
for a few days now, and it seems to have all the 0.83.4 Sugar
feature freeze changes in.
but the latest joyride (build 2654 dated 2009-02-14 -- Valentine's day
:-) ) hasn't got these newer Sugar packages, see
http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/joyride-pkgs.html
Maybe that's to be expected since Daniel Drake wrote in Re: joyride,
staging builds, sugar releases:
[Joyrides =] Obsolete, but not really obsoleted by anything usable *yet*.
Should I just bunzip/untar the newer sugar packages on my XO? I
couldn't find any guide to doing this on sugarlabs.org (surely there
must be one!?), and are there permission-security-/versions/pristine
issues unique to the XO in doing this? And are the sugar packages
compatible with joyride or with the 8.2.1 candidate-800 build, or both?
NN said in the *very* interesting
http://blog.laptop.org/2009/02/05/q-a-from-xo-camp/ :
OLPC will move to a Linux desktop that will run Sugar as an application
So should I ignore OLPC's OS images and instead try one of the XO Linux
distributions that includes Sugar? I looked around and couldn't figure
out whether Fedora rawhide still has problems on XO, whether DebXO has
Sucrose 0.84, etc. Marco Pesenti Gritti announced Fwd: Another Soas
image for the XO, but the latest image at
http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/xoimages/ predates this Sucrose release.
Daniel Drake went on to say
As for the future, the hope is that we will have a
similarly-functional OS that includes the latest version of sugar
asap. OLPC is working with Fedora on this, and while I suspect that
the end result will be pushed as a reference OS by OLPC, there are
also some other efforts ..., including debXO, and a possibility of
the community taking the 8.2 OS release and adding sugar-0.84 and
some other things as an intermediate step before the pure-Fedora
builds are suitable replacements. However, I personally think that
all of these efforts are 6-12 months away (at least) from producing
something adoptable by deployments.
But there's a mismatch between sugarlabs' only two more weeks to go in
this release cycle. Please test and OLPC's 6-12 months away.
Thanks for any suggestions.
(Normally this is where I pledge to update wiki.laptop.org with whatever
people say, but if joyride is obsolete and 9.1.0 is dead, then a lot of
pages on the wiki are misleading and I'm not sure where to start.)
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P.S. belated Valentine's day: XO-1 3 XOXO @}-`-,--
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