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

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

http://wiki.laptop.org/images/0/03/Sword_read.xo


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Walter Bender
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