On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 06:27:59PM -0700, John Gilmore wrote: > [some interesting points]
Sorry my meta-comments snuck in - they aren't relevant, and I didn't follow my own advice...I retract them (I'm sure you can tell what parts they were). > => Do any frequent contributors have ONLY an XO? <= As I've been fiddling around with a patch or two, my jhbuild has been broken due to x86_64 Xephyr F9 brokenness that's been recently fixed (thanks dodji, if you're listening, and cjb/marco for pushing), so please count me among those contributors who only have an XO (temporarily). > But the tools needed to be a contributing part of the Sugar community > don't run on the XO. [...] > Merely installing the change without trashing his XO's entire GUI > with a typo or missing Python file is tricky. After restarting X/Sugar so often to test patches for #6995, I've developed an itch for a Sugar-shell-REPL in Pippy, or something similar. Perhaps that's one way for people in the field to tinker. Of course there are diff/code browsing issues still. > John Martin
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