This page is about porting Pharo Smalltalk to Sugar. Sugar is a free desktop environment designed with the goal of being used by children for learning. Sugar is currently most widely installed on OLPC XO-1 laptop computers.

Road Map

Release 1

• Bootstrap release: just a XO Sugar bundle with stock VM and stock Pharo 1.1 image. This version should available on: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/fr/sugar/
• A lot of the needed job are necessary for DrGeo on XO, check there the job and tips already done: http://community.ofset.org/index.php/DrGeo_Todo

Release 2

to be written...

To do list

• build a specific VM with block closure support (reuse EToys work)
• port D-BUS to Pharo : http://wiki.laptop.org/go/D-BUS This is mostly used to communicate with OLPC-services. There is already an EToys version: http://www.squeaksource.com/dbus.html
• propose a sugar theme for Pharo (it is about 70% complete with some issues depending on Gary help): http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire/index.php?post/2010/07/17/Sugar-theme-fpr-Pharo
• When Pharo is used to deploy application, what we should think about is how to load fast Smalltalk code in an existing Pharo installation in the XO notebook (binary package).
• package Pharo as an xo package,
• port Cog JIT VM to XO (but XO-1.75 will be based on ARM)
• adapt multi-touch Etoys implementation to Pharo Sugar port
• adapt PBE book to have a PBE-Sugar edition