[SoaS] Childsplay

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 00:35, Tim McNamara <paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz> wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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) & requesting how it can be installed in
> Fedora.

Hmm, not schoolsplay-devel at lists.sourceforge.net ? (from
http://schoolsplay.wikidot.com/website:contact )

Regards,

Tomeu

> Best of luck, Tim.
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