On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Shawn Willden wrote: > On Tuesday 17 March 2009 10:14:51 am Mel Chua wrote: >> In case it helps, here is the email I'm using to ask for edu folk. It is >> mostly copypastes of Caroline and Greg because they're more eloquent and >> I'm getting RSI. ;) > > Good letter. > > One thing that we should think about, to help motivate teacher participation, > is how we can deliver the project applications on other platforms -- > primarily Windows. > > I understand the controversy with regard to porting Sugar to Windows, but I > think we'll get a LOT more interest and support from teachers if what they're > working on is something they can use in their own classrooms which, at least > for the teachers where I live, means on computers running Windows. > > Is there a reasonably easy way to ensure that math4 applications can run on > both the real target environment and on Windows? Is there some subset of the > Sugar APIs we can use to make this easy? Is being limited to that subset > going to unacceptably constrain the math4 apps? > > Perhaps we can explore other options, like Sugar on a Linux VM that's > relatively easy to distribute and install? > > I'm not sure what the options are, but I am sure that enabling the > participating teachers to use the math4 apps with their own students will > really help the project.
This is, frankly, a tricky problem, and different people will give you dramatically different opinions. Here are my two principles for Mongo: 1. I choose python because it runs everywhere. 2. Sugarization can and should be optional. (Right now, Mongo isn't Sugarized at all.) So, Mongo should run on Windows. I would encourage others to make sure that they choose Python apps that can run on Windows. --g -- Got an XO that you're not using? Loan it to a needy developer! [[ http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Exchange_Registry ]] _______________________________________________ FourthGradeMath mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/fourthgrademath
