[Sugar-devel] GCompris packaging

[Walter Bender]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Bruno Coudoin <bruno.coudoin at free.fr> wrote:
> Le jeudi 10 juin 2010 à 15:49 -0400, Bernie Innocenti a écrit :
>> (copying the tecnologia@ and sugar-devel@ lists for their information)
>>
>> The new strategy of pulverizing GCompris into a hundred tiny bundles
>> made it unmanageable with the current shell (updater, launcher,
>> switcher, etc).
>
> It's always the same with technology, going back and forth, full versus
> bundle, thin client versus fat...
>
> So far GCompris could be package in multi activity bundles without
> problem. It already support this, you can just test it by running
> "gcompris -l /math", it will show you all the activities under the /math
> menu. All we miss is a way to create such bundles where all the
> resources of a bundle group are together.
>
>> 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.
>
> We could follow the top level organisation of GCompris in which we have
> 8 sections:
> computer
> discovery
> experience
> fun
> math
> puzzle
> reading
> strategy
>
>> 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?
>
> Any other splitting is fine for me. We already embed a difficulty level
> (1 to 6) that could be use to create bundles.
>
> I have not yet checked Aleksey work on bunding GCompris on Sugar so we
> have to check how hard it would be to update the bundling process.
>
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> Bruno Coudoin
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Maybe a checkbox system to let a teach customize a collection for a
class/grade-level across curricula areas and leave the individual
activities available for download for children who want more?

-walter

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Walter Bender
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