[Sugar-devel] GCompris packaging

[Thomas C Gilliard]

Aleksey Lim wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Since I have very little insight on GCompris, I'll stay aside and follow
>> the conversation.
>>     
>
> I've uploaded GCompris and GComprisAdministration that should not fail
> in fc11 environment on XO-1.
>
> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/sugar/addon/4313/
> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/sugar/addon/4314/
>
>   
They work very well installed by drag drop to the sugar-journal of 
0.86.3 and 0.88.1 USB Soas USB Sticks from a 2nd ASLOxo USB :

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Soas_V4/ASLOxo_Activity_Test_Table 
(test results)
http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/ASLOxo-3ss.iso (source of .xo 
activities for 2nd ASLOxo USB)

Thank You;

Tom Gilliard
satellit



> Changelog:
> * For anim activity, net.gcompris.animActivity  bundle id was changed to
>   net.gcompris.anim
> * Full featured sugar toolbar - palettes, activity button to open help dialog
> * Journal integration for anim, draw and wordprocessor activities
> * Share activity sets between GComprisAdministration and GCompris activities
>
> Implemented teacher-student model is described here
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/GCompris#Detailed_Description
>
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