[Pkg-sugar-devel] [Debian-olpc-devel] How to build for XO1 and XO1.5 ?

[Tony Anderson]

Hi, Sebastian

I am not up on the status of the GSOC program this year, but perhaps one 
of the cadidates could take on a project to update Browse to a current 
version of WebKit.

Tony


On 04/02/2017 02:31 PM, Sebastian Silva wrote:
>
> Hi Tony,
>
> I've been meaning to reply but have had reserves wanting to avoid 
> wandering too far off topic.
>
> Indeed I'm using a transpiler to build Jappy Activity [1]. It works 
> wonderfully but I'm still lacking features for a release.
>
> [1] https://github.com/somosazucar/artisan
>
> Today I spent way too many hours trying to get Webkit1 engine as 
> packaged in OLPC OS fedora 18 based distribution for XO1.5 to run my 
> activity.
> I've come to the conclusion that it will likely never happen, Webkit1 
> is way too old.
> Trying Webkit2 causes a crash (guess that's why it's off by default).
>
> It occurs to me that Debian on XO might be a way forward out of being 
> stuck in Fedora 18. As it stands, XO users won't be able to run Jappy.
>
> Regards,
> Sebastian
>
> On 23/03/17 22:02, Tony Anderson wrote:
>> Hi, Sebastian
>>
>> I am curious how you are planning to teach python programming in 
>> html5. I read there is a
>> javascript interpreter for python - are you using that?
>>
>> I gather from your comment that you also are inflicted with the 2gb 
>> XO-1.5s. These are also the ones available in Rwanda (the customer 
>> was never informed of the difference between machines with 2GB and 
>> 4GB). Sadly the 0.110 image does not install on these machines. James 
>> Cameron made a special image which does install which is being used 
>> in Rwanda.
>>
>> Have you looked at Al Sweigart's books - which he has licensed with 
>> Creative Commons (http://inventwithpython.com/). I have a tutorial 
>> which builds
>> from hello world to using his games as examples. First the game is 
>> run in python (Terminal activity). Then the game is run in Pippy. 
>> From Pippy, the student can export his code as a Sugar activity. 
>> Note: the third book (/Making Games with Python & Pygame) /covers 
>> graphical games which in principle can run in sugar with sugargame.
>>
>> I would be very interested in a Debian image of Sugar built from 
>> Debian repository which installs on a Raspberry Pi or Intel 
>> architecture PC. Such an image should eliminate the need for an 
>> independent Ubuntu image reducing Sugar Labs potential support 
>> burden. I am not clear how code from Sugar Labs github currently gets 
>> to the Debian repository to allow such an image to match a Sugar Labs 
>> release (e.g. 0.100).
>>
>> Tony
>>
>> On 03/24/2017 10:34 AM, Sebastian Silva wrote:
>>> On 18/03/17 09:35, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>>
>>>> For the record I believe it _is_ possible to build legally distributable
>>>> Debian-derived images for XO laptops, and I am interested in doing it.
>>> Your enthusiasm nudged me to discover I had a SD card running Jessie on
>>> XO1.5 since a year ago.
>>>
>>> In January 2016 I was enthusiastic about an image that George Hunt
>>> published with MATE. At that moment my XO1.5 keyboard starting
>>> malfunctioning badly so I could not continue tests.
>>>
>>> For a while I could try it, but only had firmware working for wifi a
>>> little while and then tried upgrading to stretch. It seems to have
>>> succeeded (gets to X11) but several systemd services complain, and
>>> firmware is no longer accepted (although md5 signature is the same).
>>>
>>> At this time my interest is the following.
>>> I will be doing a workshop to teach python programming to teenagers.
>>> I've written an HTML5 activity for it and I would like to run it in
>>> Sugar 0.110 (and Sugarizer). I have secured 6 classmate pc laptops to
>>> make our classroom laboratory. I would like to build and manage a Debian
>>> image to install in these laptops.
>>>
>>> And so I am thinking my laboratory integration efforts should be
>>> replicable and redistributable so as to not make an effort for only 6
>>> teenagers at a time. I'm experimenting with debian-live for making a
>>> debian live image (to "flash" into the internal 4gb memory). The more
>>> common XO1.5 models have only a 2gb internal memory. I had a good
>>> experience recently flashing a live image to internal flash storage
>>> (withhttp://primtux.fr/). Persistence can be achieved with an external
>>> flash or a server.
>>>
>>> I think currently making SugarBlend is a wish of my own as a teacher in
>>> Videogame programing workshops that I want to make as soon as I have my
>>> tools in place.
>>> Your guidance is gladly accepted. I'm trying again a live-builder build
>>> and will report issues here or in debian-live as appropriate.
>>>
>>> Thanks and regards!
>>>
>>> Sebastian
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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