On 30.07.2008, at 13:20, Greg Smith wrote:
> On when the code is stable and frozen enough to do final regression
> testing of activities:
>
> Michael,
>
> Can we track that as a milestone? Is that "code freeze (a.k.a.
> package-level change control)" which is targeted (pending confirmation
> e-ma
ers and we may need to
revisit this after we put a stake in the ground on freezing 8.2.0 APIs.
Thanks,
Greg S
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:54:42 -0700
> From: John Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: TuxPaint woes
> To: devel@lists.laptop.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> M
Daniel Drake writes:
> I'll look into why SDL_mixer went away, and what it is used for...
It's for audio. Reasons for use include:
* Nicely compatible with other SDL stuff
* Cross-platform (BeOS, MacOS X, Win95, Vista...)
* Easy support for stereo positioning
* Handles *.ogg files
* Good enough
> >can't think of a faster way to make developers give up on our
> >platform as a lost cause.
As someone whose year-long OLPC-specific project (SimCity) was broken
by Sugar interface changes right before the 650 release, I can report
that it was pretty disheartening. Both the sound and the runn
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 20:56 -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> There are people like me who like TuxPaint better than Oficina.
> However, to run TuxPaint, users of current Joyride need to
> re-install SDL_mixer and libmikmod.
What are the errors that you encounter?
Do you know libmikmod is needed
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 08:04:10AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> michael wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:26:28PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >the obvious answers are that we need to commit to some level of
> > >continuing support for activities,
> >
> > What notion of "supp
michael wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:26:28PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >the obvious answers are that we need to commit to some level of
> >continuing support for activities,
>
> What notion of "support" would you suggest?
not breaking supplied interfaces without providing fee
Mikus Grinbergs writes:
> There are people like me who like TuxPaint better than Oficina.
> However, to run TuxPaint, users of current Joyride need to
> re-install SDL_mixer and libmikmod.
I hope you've filed a bug to request that those libraries
be put back.
I could use libpaper as well; the al
Michael Stone writes:
> On the other hand, it would be rather trivial for activities which
> cared to check their dependencies in a adhoc fashion (by running
> rpm themselves if they wish) and by reporting errors if necessary
> dependencies are unsatisfied.
This is far from trivial. Sure, I could
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:26:28PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>the obvious answers are that we need to commit to some level of
>continuing support for activities,
What notion of "support" would you suggest?
> that we support the activities ourselves,
As above.
> or that we need to provi
michael wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 08:56:47PM -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> >But should it be up to the Activity developers (or in this case, those
> >who first "fitted" the software to Sugar) to keep supporting their
> >submission as the Sugar/operating_system platform keeps evolving ?
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 08:56:47PM -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
>But should it be up to the Activity developers (or in this case, those
>who first "fitted" the software to Sugar) to keep supporting their
>submission as the Sugar/operating_system platform keeps evolving ?
Who else would you propos
There are people like me who like TuxPaint better than Oficina.
However, to run TuxPaint, users of current Joyride need to
re-install SDL_mixer and libmikmod. Also, TuxPaint is not being
"checkpointed" by Journal (and seems to start slower than it did on
build 65x).
I realize there is a serio
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