Hi Wade, thank you very much for your help in getting started with activity development !
Best regards, Walther PS: We'll follow http://git.sugarlabs.org/ for having our "ReckonPrimer project" hosted, as you recommended a year ago. Since that time the project has become more consolidated. Wade Brainerd wrote: > Hi Walther, > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Resources links to options > for setting up Activity development environment on Windows, Linux and > MacOS X. Briefly: For Linux hosts you can use native packages, > jhbuild or a virtual machine. The best Windows and Mac option is > VirtualBox. The resources page also links to various tutorials, wiki > pages, and other references that are useful when learning Activity > development. > > Regarding automated testing, please check the Sugarbot project > at http://code.google.com/p/sugarbot/. It looks like it's been idle > for about a year, and I'm not sure what stage of completion it reached > (who was the mentor btw?), but it may make a good starting point! > > Best regards, > Wade > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Walther Neuper <neu...@ist.tugraz.at > <mailto:neu...@ist.tugraz.at>> wrote: > > Hi Tomeu, > > thank you for your mail ! > > You ask: > > Can you give us some more details about what do you plan to develop > > and how do you expect it to be deployed? > Christoph Derndorfer established a project in Austria, where 25 > kids of > 8-9 years got XOs in 2008. And our Institute will contribute with > a new > activity requested by the teacher of these kids > http://www.ist.tugraz.at/projects/isac/rp/reckonprimer.html > > Last summer semester 1 student built a prototype, and there are > several > students (a selection from those listening cc) who want to > contribute to > this activity during this winter semester. > Time scheduled for this is not much more than 100h, thus it is too > short > to build up a complicated development environment, and too short for > getting familiar with complicated things. > But we would like to have > # our repository somewhere at http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/ > # a test-driven development, having something like > /usr/share/activities/ReckonPrimer.activity > /usr/share/activities/ReckonPrimer.tests > # ??? presently I have no more ideas what details to mention. > Most students have Linux (Ubuntu etc) on their computers, some > Windows. > > Any suggestions are welcome ! > > Walther > > PS: About deployment: our present focus is the school teaching the 25 > kids mentioned. If our product will turn out interesting for > others, we > would be even more motivated ! > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Walther Neuper Mailto: > neu...@ist.tugraz.at <mailto:neu...@ist.tugraz.at> > Institute for Software Technology Tel: +43-(0)316/873-5728 > University of Technology Fax: +43-(0)316/873-5706 > Graz, Austria Home: > www.ist.tugraz.at/neuper <http://www.ist.tugraz.at/neuper> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > > Hi Walther, > > > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:56, Walther Neuper > <neu...@ist.tugraz.at <mailto:neu...@ist.tugraz.at>> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> following the instructions on > >> > >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Emulating_the_XO/Quick_Start/Linux > >> > >> leads for Linux users to > >> > >> olpc-redhat-stream-ship.2-devel_ext3.img.bz2 > >> > >> 29-Feb-2008 19:49 206M > >> > >> > olpc-redhat-stream-ship.2-build-659-20080229_1949-devel_ext3.img.bz2 > > <http://xs-dev.laptop.org/cscott/olpc/streams/ship.2/latest/devel_ext3/olpc-redhat-stream-ship.2-build-659-20080229_1949-devel_ext3.img.bz2> > >> 29-Feb-2008 > 19:49 206M > >> > >> > >> > >> Christoph Derndorfer pointed out, that both are an outdated > versions. > >> Where can we get the actual version for Linux ? > >> Or askel more generally: What kind of development environment > would you > >> recommend for Linux ? > >> > > > > There are many versions of Sugar, and the differences matter > depending > > on what kind of development you want to do. > > > > Can you give us some more details about what do you plan to develop > > and how do you expect it to be deployed? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Tomeu > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > <mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Walther Neuper Mailto: neu...@ist.tugraz.at Institute for Software Technology Tel: +43-(0)316/873-5728 University of Technology Fax: +43-(0)316/873-5706 Graz, Austria Home: www.ist.tugraz.at/neuper ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel