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[pgf]

is there a base set of libraries one can build against when building apps (errrr... "activities") for the XO?  i realize it's "just" a linux box running gtk2, but surely there are "blessed" versions of those libs, and perhaps other libs that don't appear in a standard distribution.  i'm not sure what i'm picturing -- at least a list of the development libs one should link against, but perhaps an rpm or tarball that would make it easy?

much of the developer info on the wiki is aimed at the XO core developers, not someone who just wants to do a one-off build of their favorite editor, or mail program, or whatever.

paul

[pgf]

replying to myself -- i've now found the api reference and the human interface guidelines on the olpc wiki, and have a better feel for the magnitude of the answer to what i thought was a simple question.  ;-)

[morgs]

Sugar is written in Python and provides a lot of modules for activity functionality.

[pgf]

yes, thanks.  i was thinking more of how one would go about porting existing (non-python) applications onto the unit.  say someone really wanted to run mutt, or xclock (to use a silly example) for some reason -- what development libraries should they link against on their host machine?  the second step, of course, is "what has to be done to an application to turn it into a sugar activity?".  clearly a bigger issue.

looking forward to figuring it all out...

paul