[math4] Coding platforms

[Frederick Grose]

Squeak, http://squeakland.org/, and Etoys apps can also run on all the
platforms and soon on web browsers as well.
http://n2.nabble.com/Etoys-packaging-(was:-SugarPlatform-0.84.0-on-Mandriva)-tc2485667.html

    --Fred

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Greg Dekoenigsberg <gdk at redhat.com> wrote:

>
> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Shawn Willden wrote:

...

> > One thing that we should think about, to help motivate teacher
> participation,
> > is how we can deliver the project applications on other platforms --
> > primarily Windows.
> >
> > I understand the controversy with regard to porting Sugar to Windows, but
> I
> > think we'll get a LOT more interest and support from teachers if what
> they're
> > working on is something they can use in their own classrooms which, at
> least
> > for the teachers where I live, means on computers running Windows.
> >
> > Is there a reasonably easy way to ensure that math4 applications can run
> on
> > both the real target environment and on Windows?  Is there some subset of
> the
> > Sugar APIs we can use to make this easy?  Is being limited to that subset
> > going to unacceptably constrain the math4 apps?
> >
> > Perhaps we can explore other options, like Sugar on a Linux VM that's
> > relatively easy to distribute and install?
> >
> > I'm not sure what the options are, but I am sure that enabling the
> > participating teachers to use the math4 apps with their own students will
> > really help the project.
>
> This is, frankly, a tricky problem, and different people will give you
> dramatically different opinions.  Here are my two principles for Mongo:
>
> 1. I choose python because it runs everywhere.
>
> 2. Sugarization can and should be optional.  (Right now, Mongo isn't
> Sugarized at all.)
>
> So, Mongo should run on Windows.  I would encourage others to make sure
> that they choose Python apps that can run on Windows.
>
> --g
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