Re: [Sugar-devel] Active development

2016-04-18 Thread Dave Crossland
On 18 April 2016 at 22:00, Tony Anderson wrote: > OLE Nepal later converted the squeak activities to html5/javascript > because to speed up execution and reduce the memory size of the activities. THAT is interesting! :) Thanks!

Re: [Sugar-devel] Active development

2016-04-18 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, Dave Scratch is based on squeak. Back in the day, OLE Nepal wrote some 80 activities as part of EPaath using squeak. I suspect if you Google you will find descriptions for both Etoys and Scratch on writing projects in Squeak. OLE Nepal later converted the squeak activities to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Active development

2016-04-18 Thread Dave Crossland
On 18 April 2016 at 16:01, Justin Overton wrote: > Is this the correct place for the current javascript development? > https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-web > That's the python wrapper that allows web-platform activities to run within a full Sugar Desktop. There's also

Re: [Sugar-devel] Active development

2016-04-18 Thread Justin Overton
> From: Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net> > To: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Active development > Message-ID: <57145c92.2090...@usa.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" > > Very mu

Re: [Sugar-devel] Active development

2016-04-18 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 18.04.2016, at 17:28, Dave Crossland wrote: > > Hi > I spent a lot of time yesterday reading about the history of smalltalk, and > it seems undervalued. > > http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/search?q=squeak=all >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Active development

2016-04-18 Thread Dave Crossland
On 18 April 2016 at 11:47, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Etoys is arguably a World of activities. > In theory there's no difference between theory and practice. Let me put this another way: I am new to SmallTalk and it makes grand claims, yet I can not see much real world impact.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Active development

2016-04-18 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Dave Crossland (2016-04-18 17:28:06) > On 18 April 2016 at 00:03, Tony Anderson wrote: > >> Very much so. Currently the focus is writing activities using >> javascript (sugar-web-activities). These activities work in Sugar >> exactly as do the Python-base

Re: [Sugar-devel] Active development

2016-04-18 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 18 April 2016 at 00:03, Tony Anderson wrote: > Very much so. Currently the focus is writing activities using javascript > (sugar-web-activities). These activities work in Sugar exactly as do the > Python-base activities. They also work on Sugarizer requiring only a

Re: [Sugar-devel] Active development

2016-04-18 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Justin I was also astonished to learn that Sugar is still going last month, but the community is pretty active still, I agree with what Tony said :) On 18 April 2016 at 00:03, Tony Anderson wrote: > Very much so. Currently the focus is writing activities using

[Sugar-devel] Active development

2016-04-17 Thread Justin Overton
Is development for sugar still active? I'm interested in writing some activities. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel