[Pkg-sugar-devel] Bug#938587: sugar-etoys-activity: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2020-06-06 17:03:08)
> Hi Moritz,
> 
> Quoting Moritz Mühlenhoff (2020-06-06 16:34:38)
> > sugar-etoys-activity seems dead upstream the last commit is from 2012, 
> > shall we remove it?
> 
> What a coincidence that you should ask today - same exact day that a new 
> release of Squeak Etoys was released after 10 years of development: 
> http://www.squeakland.org/download/
> 
> So no, I think the package should not be removed but upgraded :-)
> 
> Thanks for asking, though - it is tricky to keep track of the Etoys and 
> Squeak and Sugarlabs and OLPC resources, it is as if each fraction 
> considers itself the center piece and does not reference activities 
> happening at the other parts.  I could easily have missed this 
> announcement if you hadn't asked about it.

...also, I see now that sugar-etoys-activity specifically (i.e. a thin 
wrapper to load Squeak Etoys itself) is just 2 lines of python.  I think 
even I can manage to migrate that to Python3 ;-)


 - Jonas

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