[etoys-dev] What prevent latest Etoys working with latest Sugar release ?

Caroline Meeks caroline at solutiongrove.com
Mon Nov 9 16:16:52 EST 2009


I was thinking of trying to set up DrGeo for a demo to a teacher tomorrow.
 Sounds like maybe not yet?

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Hilaire Fernandes <
hilaire.fernandes at edu.ge.ch> wrote:

> I just test this and it looks pretty bad. About 50% slower than
> original Drgeo xo bundle.
>
> I installed the VM and Etoys image your recommended. Then I installed
> into this image the drgeo.cs from a PC.
> Usability in the XO is close to zero. All Etoys updated that way seems
> slow by the way (without any drgeo upgrade).
> Damn, this ruined the activity I planed with students tomorrow.
>
> Hilaire
>
>
>
> 2009/10/27 Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>:
> > On 27.10.2009, at 15:57, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
> >
> >> 2009/10/27 Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>:
> >>
> >>> No. These OS updates are under development. The latest stable release
> by
> >>> OLPC is still 8.2.1.
> >>>
> >>> Regarding your original subject line, there is *nothing* I know that
> >>> would
> >>> prevent the latest Etoys to work with the latest Sugar. The latest
> Etoys
> >>> also works with the old Sugar as already installed on the XOs.
> >>
> >> Yes, that's what I need to know.
> >> Just to be sure, can I just replace the .image .changes file in the XO
> >> with newer ones based from Etoys4?
> >
> > This should work I think but I'd recommend to install the latest RPM.
> That
> > way you get all the additional files too, like translations, fixed
> example
> > projects, help guides etc:
> >
> >> Do I need to update the VM as well, or does the one in the XO still
> >> fine with newer Etoys?
> >
> > Should work fine, but again I'd recommend updating to the latest RPM.
> There
> > is a reason we release updated VMs too ;)
> >
> >>> But you would have to upgrade Etoys yourself, same procedure as ever:
> >>
> >> Yes, in all case I have to do that, as I need to ship DrGeo code as
> well.
> >>
> >> To share projects among XO laptop, I think I will have to use a wifi
> >> access point and a third party laptop providing FTP or Superswiki2
> >> access. It is really ridiculous mesh network is of no help to share
> >> files.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the info. and tips.
> >>
> >> Hilaire
> >
> > No problem :)
> >
> > - Bert -
> >
> >
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