[Sugar-devel] Pippy: "save as example" function

[Brian Jordan]

Hi Gabriel,

I like this!  I will give it a test and commit it soon.  Did you all
have a chance to test out the Pippy version 35 that Ben Schwartz put
together, with Groupthink-enabled collaboration?
http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4041  If we can find
a good jabber server, I'd love to have a global programming session
one of these days :)

More generally, re: pippy maintenance, I apologize for being rather
slow with testing and committing new patches and branches lately. I am
planning to devote some time to pushing this change and committing /
fixing some library and python version issues with GASP-integration in
pippy soon!

As usual, if anyone would like to have commit access to pippy
repository mainline, let me know your gitorious username!

http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/pippy


Best,
Brian

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Gabriel Eirea<geirea at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> During yesterday's ceibalJAM! a group of volunteers worked on
> improvements for Pippy. We had three main requests:
>
> 1) code comments in the examples are in English and not pootle-translatable
> 2) there is a need for more examples to awaken kids' curiosity
> 3) saving code in the journal is not very useful because built-in
> examples are shown in a treelist and more readily available
>
> For 3) I'm sending a patch (diff  against Pippy version 34) that adds
> the "save as Pippy example" option and shows custom examples in the
> treelist. The trick is to use the $SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT/data directory
> as a persistent repository for these files and show them in a separate
> category "My examples". This is complementary to the "save in the
> journal" functionality that can be used mainly for sharing code with
> others.
>
> For 2) we have new examples to contribute, we still need to compile
> them and translate some parts.
>
> For 1) the plan is to add localisation subdirectories in the data
> directory where built-in examples are located. If the directory
> exists, then examples are taken from there and not the english ones.
> The disadvantage is that they will still not be pootle-translatable so
> examples need to be sent upstream to be included in the bundle.
>
> We will welcome any thoughts.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gabriel
>
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