Re: Sugar window managing UI (was: Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting)

2010-01-06 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:49 +0100, Sascha Silbe wrote: > a) is harder as every window switch currently involves saving current > state to the DS (which resides on an abysmally slow SD card in my case), > usually done synchronously. It also generates log messages, right? In which case, a fix for

Sugar window managing UI (was: Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting)

2010-01-06 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 06:18:47PM -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote: I think there's room for solid innovation here, especially since the window manager of sugar was *my* personal roadblock to productive on-XO activity development. Interesting. What exactly about the window manager crippled your

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2010-01-05 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: >> Speaking of android, has anyone heard anything about google's other OS, >> chrome OS? > > Installed Chrome OS on my XO-1.5 when I was using os64 - the install > pulled in a whole barnful of dependencies.  Did not find Chrome > impressive -

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2010-01-02 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
> Speaking of android, has anyone heard anything about google's other OS, > chrome OS? Installed Chrome OS on my XO-1.5 when I was using os64 - the install pulled in a whole barnful of dependencies. Did not find Chrome impressive - but it probably is the most capable HTML5 implementation current

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2010-01-02 Thread David Van Assche
Speaking of android, has anyone heard anything about google's other OS, chrome OS? kind regards, David On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > NoiseEHC, I think your arguments would be more convincing if you > didn't respond to every email, especially when you'd made that point >

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-30 Thread Samuel Klein
NoiseEHC, I think your arguments would be more convincing if you didn't respond to every email, especially when you'd made that point before in the same thread :-) On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:40 AM, NoiseEHC wrote: >> The software is designed for learning. *That* is what Sugar was created for, >

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-29 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
NoiseEHC wrote: > What you do > not want to recognize is that you are excluding a lot of developers who > do not want to waste their time because of the lack of IDEs. We are trying to provide stepping stones. One of those steps is the Develop activity [1], which is a Sugar-oriented IDE for Acti

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-29 Thread NoiseEHC
to do this you would have to declare one specific variation of these tools as the 'One True Way' and eliminate all the others. the advantage of a loosly coupled IDE is that one component can be replaced by something else without having to change/loose all the other things. and the advantag

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:15 PM, wrote: > the advantage of a loosly coupled IDE is that one component can be replaced > by something else without having to change/loose all the other things. Bingo! As soon as git was working, I switched fulltime to it (and dragged my team with me ;-) ). When val

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-29 Thread david
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, NoiseEHC wrote: 2009/12/29 NoiseEHC : me. Another (optional) question is why did you left out gdb from the list? All sorts of things run on the 3/4 xterms i use. valgrind, gdb, python -m pdb, tail -f /path/to/log, ipython, ps_mem.py, psql, git commands... And if al

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-29 Thread NoiseEHC
2009/12/29 NoiseEHC : me. Another (optional) question is why did you left out gdb from the list? All sorts of things run on the 3/4 xterms i use. valgrind, gdb, python -m pdb, tail -f /path/to/log, ipython, ps_mem.py, psql, git commands... And if all those tools would be integrat

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
2009/12/29 NoiseEHC : > me. Another (optional) question is why did you left out gdb from the list? All sorts of things run on the 3/4 xterms i use. valgrind, gdb, python -m pdb, tail -f /path/to/log, ipython, ps_mem.py, psql, git commands... > All your code is perfect because you are a top-qualit

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-29 Thread NoiseEHC
For the other people talking about IDEs: an usable IDE is not a text editor. Of course. What I do (and most other productive programmers I know do) is use the window manager (gnome, kde, awesome...), xterms, a webbrowser, etc, to make a "LIDE": loosely integrated dev environment. I've le

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-29 Thread NoiseEHC
> Are you aware the XO ships a full Smalltalk IDE? You know, like VisualAge > which later became Eclipse? It's "hidden" in the Etoys activity, but > (surprise!) it's a kids laptop. Because someone will break your arms if you port Etoys to Android. Now I understand. > The software is designed

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 1:47 AM, NoiseEHC wrote: > For the other people talking about IDEs: an usable IDE is not a text > editor. Of course. What I do (and most other productive programmers I know do) is use the window manager (gnome, kde, awesome...), xterms, a webbrowser, etc, to make a "LIDE":

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-28 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 29.12.2009, at 01:47, NoiseEHC wrote: > > >> Ahem. With XO-1.5, I feel that I AM shipping a "full-fledged Linux >> PC" to every child. >> Since when did it take more than a GB of RAM and 4GB of disk to host >> an IDE ? >> >> My point still stands: until Android supports its own developmen

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-28 Thread NoiseEHC
> Ahem. With XO-1.5, I feel that I AM shipping a "full-fledged Linux > PC" to every child. > Since when did it take more than a GB of RAM and 4GB of disk to host > an IDE ? > > My point still stands: until Android supports its own development > tools, you are > turning it's users into second

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-28 Thread Neil Graham
On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 19:38 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: > emacs is what I am using on both XO-1 and XO-1.5 so pretty good going > ;-) (Along with vim! Peace!) > > Lots of people here want to claim we need Eclipse to have an "IDE". Of > all the developers involved in the whole Linux > kernel+Fedo

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-28 Thread John Gilmore
> > Since when did it take more than a GB of RAM and 4GB of disk to host > > an IDE ? > > I think that was Emacs 23. No, that was "Eight Megs and Continuously Swapping". I.e. in an amazingly large and expensive Sun Workstation with 8 *megabytes* of RAM, emacs would still make the system page-fau

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-28 Thread Paul Fox
wad wrote: > > Emacs forever ! (although it has gotten huge) hmm. how's its Flash player? :-) =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-28 Thread John Watlington
On Dec 28, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > martin wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 7:25 PM, C. Scott Ananian >> wrote: >>> j/k. ;-) >> >> emacs is what I am using on both XO-1 and XO-1.5 so pretty good going >> ;-) (Along with vim! Peace!) >> >> Lots of people here want to claim we need E

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-28 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 7:25 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > > j/k. ;-) > > emacs is what I am using on both XO-1 and XO-1.5 so pretty good going > ;-) (Along with vim! Peace!) > > Lots of people here want to claim we need Eclipse to have an "IDE". Of > all the developers i

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 7:25 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > j/k. ;-) emacs is what I am using on both XO-1 and XO-1.5 so pretty good going ;-) (Along with vim! Peace!) Lots of people here want to claim we need Eclipse to have an "IDE". Of all the developers involved in the whole Linux kernel+Fedo

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-28 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:07 AM, John Watlington wrote: > Ahem.   With XO-1.5, I feel that I AM shipping a "full-fledged Linux > PC" to every child. > Since when did it take more than a GB of RAM and 4GB of disk to host > an IDE ? I think that was Emacs 23. j/k. ;-) --scott --

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-28 Thread John Watlington
I just installed Fedora Eclipse on an XO-1.5 and launched it under Gnome.Granted, I ran into #9927 (/var/cache/yum too small)... Cheers, wad ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-28 Thread John Watlington
On Dec 28, 2009, at 8:54 AM, NoiseEHC wrote: > You can still create applications with > http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/ > > With the existing tools it is true that children cannot create the > same quality applications what is possible with the Android SDK > environment (even if w

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-28 Thread NoiseEHC
>> Actually, no. The .class -> .dex compiler consumes an enormous amount of >> memory, so it is out of the question at least for now. > > How much is enormous ? A laptop/tablet is likely to have more than > a smartphone... > With hundreds of classes in a .jar to convert it uses some 256M, with

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 9:56 PM, John Gilmore wrote: >>             I would argue that an operating system that doesn't >> natively host its development tools is not appropriate for OLPC's >> target audience. > > Does the XO-1 host its own development tools?  I don't think anyone > has ever rebuil

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-27 Thread John Watlington
On Dec 27, 2009, at 5:52 PM, NoiseEHC wrote: > >> Does Android not host its development tools because it doesn't run >> the >> X Window System? Since X already runs on most of the hardware that >> Android does, that wouldn't be too hard to remedy -- and would >> benefit >> the whole Android

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-27 Thread NoiseEHC
> Does Android not host its development tools because it doesn't run the > X Window System? Since X already runs on most of the hardware that > Android does, that wouldn't be too hard to remedy -- and would benefit > the whole Android community. > Actually, no. The .class -> .dex compiler cons

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-27 Thread Michael Stone
> Does the XO-1 host its own development tools? For all practical purposes, it does not. First, as you have noted, it takes quite a bit of bandwidth to install the toolchain and development headers. (And you have to know what they're called.) Second, to get anything done with C, you really nee

Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting

2009-12-27 Thread John Gilmore
> I would argue that an operating system that doesn't > natively host its development tools is not appropriate for OLPC's > target audience. Does the XO-1 host its own development tools? I don't think anyone has ever rebuilt the system from source code on an XO-1. I don't even know a