Re: Porting Sugar on Android (Ice cream sandwich)

2012-12-12 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 5:19 AM, RJV jv.ravichand...@gmail.com wrote: Implement a shell -- replacing the standard Android shell -- that has the main features of Sugar shell This looks like the nearest to what I hope to achieve - the same experience of the XO on a hand-held device especially

Re: [Sugar-devel] Porting Sugar on Android (Ice cream sandwich)

2012-12-12 Thread RJV
Yes, Prof. Nagarjunaji, I have heard of your device and was really keen on the opportunity to interact with you over it. Of course, I am not one for reinventing the wheel and hence, the possible steps plus I, too, am more in favor of the 2nd option. Though, interestingly, Peter Robinson's

Porting Sugar on Android (Ice cream sandwich)

2012-12-11 Thread RJV
Hi, We are planning to port Sugar on Android and are faced with these options: 1. Sugar as an application on Android. 2. As a platform on top of the Linux platform. Can the Sugar build be used to create an app bundle to deploy to the app store? Are there any licensing issues? On 2., can

Re: Porting Sugar on Android (Ice cream sandwich)

2012-12-11 Thread Alexandro Colorado
I think Sugar could be something like an alternative gui shell similar cynogen http://www.cyanogenmod.org/ On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:24 AM, RJV jv.ravichand...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We are planning to port Sugar on Android and are faced with these options: 1. Sugar as an application on

Re: Porting Sugar on Android (Ice cream sandwich)

2012-12-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Rajiv, your plan seems to have good goals, but is missing some understanding of what you can and cannot do. You cannot run Sugar (a Python-based window manager, based on traditional Linux sw stack) on the Android stack. Way too different. To reach your goals, however, you could try something

Re: Porting Sugar on Android (Ice cream sandwich)

2012-12-11 Thread RJV
Thanks, Martin. Btw, where did you deduce the name Rajiv from? :) RJv On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: Implement a shell -- replacing the standard Android shell -- that has the main features of Sugar shell -- Regards, *Ravichandran J.V.*

Re: Porting Sugar on Android (Ice cream sandwich)

2012-12-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
I'm sorry! Looks like I misread your name. A faux pass typical of borderline autistic people -- get all the technical details clearly, mess up the other person's name. Hope the technical part was useful. No offense intended. cheers, martin On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:12 PM, RJV

Re: Porting Sugar on Android (Ice cream sandwich)

2012-12-11 Thread RJV
Implement a shell -- replacing the standard Android shell -- that has the main features of Sugar shell This looks like the nearest to what I hope to achieve - the same experience of the XO on a hand-held device especially the Ad-Hoc networking. Jv On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:01 AM, Martin