[SoaS] Physics <- SoaS v10 TC5 tests with important activities INCLUDED in the standard distribution

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Jean THIERY <Jean.Thiery at modlibre.info> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Le 12/12/2013 05:14, Frederick Grose a écrit :
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Fred,
>>>
>>> Thanks for testing.
>>>
>>> Peter,
>>>
>>> Is there any reason we need elements in the build ? I don't think it is
>>> *used by anything but Physics in Sugar* and Physics carries its own copy
>>> with it.
>>>
>>> -walter
>
>
> Thank you for your interest in the *Physics activity*
> which is important
> - as a simple game for young children

It is a dynamic paint program :). One of the new features in the next
release is a pen you can attach to objects to trace their paths.

> - and as a teaching tool for older children.
>
> There is also a *Physics Python program* in Pippy.
> A simple display with no apparent interactivity (and no "hand").
>
> Do they use common tools ?

Yes. Although I need to clean up the code included with Pippy. (A new
Pippy will be released soon as well.)
>
>> Gary Martin has a Physics-11 in Fedora and the Activity Library,
>>
>> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addons/versions/4193#version-11
>>
>> that is installed in SoaS.  This is what I must have been launching
>> when I clicked the Physics.xo item in my Documents folder in the
>> Journal.
>>
>> Copying Walter's Physics-11.xo to the Journal and launching from there
>> (after erasing the original Physics-11.xo) AND hiding
>> /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/elements was effective in launching
>> and running Physics in Fedora 20 TC5.
>>
>>            --Fred
>
>
> Sincerely hours,
>
> Jean [Jean.Thiery(ò)ModLibre.info][http://ModLibre.info/]


regards.

-walter
-- 
Walter Bender
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