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

[karl ramberg]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

> On 27.10.2009, at 03:50, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
>
>  I am hesitating a lot in spending a couple of hours to install on
>> several XO laptops something that may be not reliable (hacker level),
>> and which my students will reject instantaneously (non hacker level,
>> zero level of tolerance toward non reliable system), and which prevent
>> any potential pedagogical actions (not even there as there are many
>> boring technical pb to fix or overcome technical limitation, bad, bad
>> )
>>
>
> Hesitating is healthy. You need to judge whether the benefits (improvements
> in a newer version) outweigh the risks (possibility of breakage). I'm pretty
> sure it will work fine, but ultimately we release this under a license that
> says
>
> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
> IMPLIED
>
>
>  Is the update path you suggested reliable?
>>
>
> 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.
>
> But you would have to upgrade Etoys yourself, same procedure as ever:
>
>        http://etoys.laptop.org/
>
>
This page is quite invisible.

And maybe a couple of more sentences about using Terminal and logging in as
root etc. could be added here.

Karl
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