[Sugar-devel] GCompris packaging

[Bernie Innocenti]

Thank you very much Aleksey for this impressive sugarization work.

Jorge, Martin: podría comprobar esta version de GCompris y informarme si
es lo que necesitamos? Gracias.


El Thu, 01-07-2010 a las 13:35 +0000, Aleksey Lim escribió:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 03:49:28PM -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> > (copying the tecnologia@ and sugar-devel@ lists for their information)
> > 
> > Pacita, meet Aleksey, a very active contributor of Sugar, maintainer of
> > the Sugar Labs activity library (ASLO) and packager of GCompris.
> > 
> > Aleksey, meet Pacita, the lead of the education team of Paraguay Educa,
> > who has a very strong background on pedagogy and teaching materials.
> > 
> > 
> > The old monolithic bundle of GCompris was 70MB so big that it was
> > causing problems at all levels with the limited disk space of the XO-1.
> > 
> > The new strategy of pulverizing GCompris into a hundred tiny bundles
> > made it unmanageable with the current shell (updater, launcher,
> > switcher, etc).
> > 
> > After separate discussions with Pacita and Aleksey, we all seem to agree
> > that GCompris needs to be repackaged differently. From a technical
> > standpoint, breaking GCompris into 4-5 activities would be ideal.
> > 
> > However, it's not clear yet how the break should be done to make it more
> > useful in the classroom: by subject? by age group? by curriculum?
> > Educators can offer important input on this.
> > 
> > Since I have very little insight on GCompris, I'll stay aside and follow
> > the conversation.
> 
> I've uploaded GCompris and GComprisAdministration that should not fail
> in fc11 environment on XO-1.
> 
> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/sugar/addon/4313/
> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/sugar/addon/4314/
> 
> Changelog:
> * For anim activity, net.gcompris.animActivity  bundle id was changed to
>   net.gcompris.anim
> * Full featured sugar toolbar - palettes, activity button to open help dialog
> * Journal integration for anim, draw and wordprocessor activities
> * Share activity sets between GComprisAdministration and GCompris activities
> 
> Implemented teacher-student model is described here
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/GCompris#Detailed_Description
> 

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