<div class="gmail_quote">On 30 September 2010 03:45, Gary Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:garycmartin@googlemail.com">garycmartin@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">However to be honest, I think the extra dependancies are the real issue just at the moment (I haven't seen it working yet). I guess specific distros could each individually package up and install the needed dependancies (though that is not very child friendly, at least a deployment could choose to include it). Unfortunately as it is, almost none of the existing Sugar users will be able to use this activity. I try to keep a fairly clean Sugar environment here for testing, and it fails right away with "ImportError: No module named nltk.corpus"</div> <br> I made it as far as yum installing 15Mb for python-nltk (which pulled in about 11 external dependancies), at which point the activity would run and show its UI, but was still non-functional. I looked through the error logs (attached below if you are curious) but didn't have time to try and go through the dependencies trying to find what was still missing.<br> </blockquote><div><br></div><div>NLTK depends on much more than the software. It also needs the corpus data to run effectively[1][,2]. From memory, that's generally several hundred megs. However wordGroupz may not require the whole stack. NLTK is a highly modular application/framework and could be spliced and packaged by the wordGroupz maintainers.</div> <div><br></div><div>I've done a fair bit of work with NLTK this year and am fairly active in that community, however I don't have time to look into the complexities of this right now.</div><div><br></div><div>Tim</div> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://www.nltk.org/data">http://www.nltk.org/data</a></div><div>[2] <a href="http://nltk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/nltk_data/index.xml">http://nltk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/nltk_data/index.xml</a></div> </div>