[Sugar-devel] Fwd: [support-gang] Sword Read

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Is there an activity developer willing to take on the job of
> maintaining (and updating) this abandoned activity for the benefit of
> this Oceania?
>
> From looking at the activity download, there is an .so file in there
> which is probably the "source" of the issue.
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sword_read
>
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/images/7/78/Swordread.xo
>
>
> http://www.crosswire.org/sword
>
> cjl
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ian Thomson <ithomson.nz at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 5:08 PM
> Subject: [support-gang] Sword Read
> To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT
> laptop.org\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> When we first introduced the XO to the Pacific Islands, there was
> considerable interest in the Sword Read (the bible) activity.
>
> Now we are rolling out in more volume, we want to include it as an
> option, but it doesnt seem to work in the new versions.
>
> Can anyone point me to the person who can help to update the
> appplication so it will run in the current build.
>
> --
> Ian Thomson
> e-Learning Fellow, USP
> Suva Fiji
> Phone +679 8640344
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Two problems:
(1) the format of the activity.info is deprecated. Easy enough to fix.
(2) there are multiple binaries, all compiled for x86. one, sword.so
tries to load libpython2.5. Patched it in emacs, so the activity now
runs; but we'll need the source to compile for ARM.

I have it running and will put v3 on the wiki.

-walter

-walter

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Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
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