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* Activity - regular activities would not use glucose directly, rather they would only access glucose through the Polyol level.<br>There is no need to code special activities, the sugar-toolkit API will be preserved, and activity developers will benefit because Polyol will support the recent sugar-toolkit API, e.g., they could use the new toolbars design even on Sugar 0.82. | * Activity - regular activities would not use glucose directly, rather they would only access glucose through the Polyol level.<br>There is no need to code special activities, the sugar-toolkit API will be preserved, and activity developers will benefit because Polyol will support the recent sugar-toolkit API, e.g., they could use the new toolbars design even on Sugar 0.82. | ||
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| + | == Libraries == | ||
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| + | === [[Activity_Team/Services/Env|env]] === | ||
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| + | Access to various sugar environment settings. | ||
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| + | === [[Activity_Team/Services/Shell|shell]] === | ||
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| + | Compatibility level library to sugar-shell. | ||
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| + | === [[Activity_Team/Services/Collab|collab]] === | ||
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| + | High level client API for what activity developers might need to code collab activities. | ||
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| + | === [[Activity_Team/Services/Storage|storage]] === | ||
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| + | High level client API to sugar-datastore and local files system. | ||
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| + | === [[Activity_Team/Services/Gui|gui]] === | ||
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| + | A set of first level GUI widgets to simplify process of activity creation. | ||
Revision as of 01:26, 23 April 2010
Summary
Intermediate level GObject based libraries stack.
Concepts
- Glucose - sugar core processes.
- Polyol - level that contains glucose compatibility libraries and libraries that are not tied to glucose directly (or not tied at all).
The reason for such a level is that it will be deployed by 0install, e.g., it would be possible to have a recent Polyol stack on Sugar 0.82.- all libraries are written in Vala, i.e., based on pure GObjects, and could be used by non-python-based activities.
- each Polyol component has its own release schedule, i.e., there are no Polyol official releases (it looks like in Gentoo)
- glucose compatibility components will support several (popular among sugar deployers) sugar releases
- except for the glucose compatibility components, all Polyol libraries are glucose independent.
- Activity - regular activities would not use glucose directly, rather they would only access glucose through the Polyol level.
There is no need to code special activities, the sugar-toolkit API will be preserved, and activity developers will benefit because Polyol will support the recent sugar-toolkit API, e.g., they could use the new toolbars design even on Sugar 0.82.
Libraries
env
Access to various sugar environment settings.
shell
Compatibility level library to sugar-shell.
collab
High level client API for what activity developers might need to code collab activities.
storage
High level client API to sugar-datastore and local files system.
gui
A set of first level GUI widgets to simplify process of activity creation.