[SoaS] Childsplay

[Tim McNamara]

On 26 February 2010 12:22, louis homer <ldhomer at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is a suite of children's programs written in python, has a GPL license.
> My 3 year old grandson loves it and is learning to read with it. The
> maintainers say they
> have been in touch with the folks at sugar labs, but that apparently the
> resource requirements for python and pygames is too much for the standard
> distribution. I thought if I got a large enough flash drive there might be
> way to add it.
>
> Childsplay: Educational games for young children.<http://childsplay.sourceforge.net/install-windows.php>


My guess is there would have been some miscommunication somewhere...
Childsplay might not be able to run on the OLPX XO-1.

Without looking into it in too much detail, my guess is that Childsplay will
probably work just fine. It may be a little fiddly to get going, however.
Pygame & python is what Sugar is built with. However, SDL (which is what
pygame talks to) generally works much better on MS Windows than Linux.
Therefore, if Childsplay uses some of Pygame's OpenGL features, then things
may not live up to your expectations.

I recommend emailing Childsplay's user list (
childsplay at users.sourceforge.net<https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=childsplay@users.sourceforge.net>
) & requesting how it can be installed in Fedora.

Best of luck, Tim.
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