[Sugar-devel] GCompris packaging

[Aleksey Lim]

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.

Full v9.3 GC weights 45M (w/o voices), so if it is ok it could be just
one activity.

> 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.

There is some kind of administrative activity[1], but I never touched this.
Will see how to sugarize it, I guess with this, we can effectively rich
what we need.

[1] http://gcompris.net/wiki/index.php?title=Manual#Administering_GCompris

> Since I have very little insight on GCompris, I'll stay aside and follow
> the conversation.
> 
> -- 
>    // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
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> 

-- 
Aleksey