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== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
This page explains what needs to be in a computer so it can run Sugar 0.86. | This page explains what needs to be in a computer so it can run Sugar 0.86. Also are mentioned ways in which the dependency could be weakened. | ||
== Software components == | == Software components == | ||
==== Python ==== | ==== Python ==== | ||
Almost all of Sugar is written in python, small bits of C are used to interface with libraries or to improve the performance of computationally intensive operations. | |||
Some language features and extension modules from python 2.5 are used, but reducing the dependency to 2.4 should be possible without much effort. | |||
==== Gtk+ ==== | ==== Gtk+ ==== | ||
We depend on Gtk+ 2.18 but should be possible to fall back to 2.16 or even 2.14 with relatively little effort. | |||
==== D-Bus ==== | ==== D-Bus ==== | ||
Communication between processes is done with D-Bus, due to indirect dependencies, we need version 1.1. | |||
==== NetworkManager ==== | |||
Sugar uses the API that landed in NM 0.7. Though NetworkManager is not required for Sugar to start, you lose management of network devices. | |||
==== Metacity ==== | ==== Metacity ==== | ||
==== | Sugar can work with most standard-compliant X11 window managers, but these differ a lot on how they handle corner cases and thus using any other window manager would require extensive testing. | ||
==== X11 ==== | |||
Sugar interfaces directly with X for window and session management. In order to remove this dependency, alternate implementations would need to be developed and an abstraction interface be created. | |||
== Resources == | == Resources == | ||