[gcompris-devel] Hello - and some feedback from a newbie

[Dennis Reichel]

Greetings,

I am new to gcompris, but have been using Linux for many years.  I want to
have a Linux box at home, and for that to happen, it needs to be useful for
the family (otherwise I am guilty of bringing
"junk" into the house :)  Now my 5 year old daughter enjoys using gcompris
and I have a Linux box in the front room.  (a win-win situation)

I apologize in advance for the vagueness of some of my statements.  I'm
writing from work, and have gcompris on a machine at home.

I installed gcompris 4.0 and later 4.1 on a Slackware 9.0 box.   It was
somewhat difficult to identify what python support libraries needed to be
installed to get the python plugin capability built into gcompris (according
to the "configure" program for gcompris, python plugins are now enabled)

I don't have a clue what that does for me, but 4.0 seemed to work the same
with and without python plugins.

Some explanation about what python extensions should be used could be
helpful to python and gcompris newbies.

Question: is there a library like CPAN is for Perl, but for Python?

There is a typo in the (I don't remember which) README or INSTALL text file
in both gcompris 4.0 and 4.1.  They mention requiring "xmllib2" when it's
really "libxml2".

Also, for the slackware 9.0 installation, I had to build and install the
latest Gnu Chess program.

The command line required to configure and make gcompris has to specify the
location of the python library and include directories on the Slackware 9.0.

Regarding the assetml libraries on sourceforge, some documentation of what
they are and how they relate to gcompris would be helpful.

Does anyone "hang out" on the gcompris channel on the irc server mentioned
in the documentation?

Best Regards from Florida USA,


Dennis Reichel
Reichel Systems Support
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Riviera Beach, FL 33404
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dennis at reichel.net
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruno Coudoin" <bruno.coudoin at free.fr>
To: "gcompris-devel" <gcompris-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 1:55 AM
Subject: Re: [gcompris-devel] delete gnome


> Le mer 12/11/2003 à 22:43, bruno patin a écrit :
> > Bruno,
> >
> > What do you advice me as a good book on gnome (perhaps do you prefer an
> > online doc ?). Another question, if I want to debig the app,  where do I
> > avoid the app to take all the screen ? What do you use as a favourite
> > tool in order to debug ?  Do you advice something (I use valgrind + ddd
> > for the time being) ?
> >
> I don't know for a gnome book. Check for documentation on www.gnome.org
> in the developper section, but you don't really need it since the goal
> is to move to gtk ;)
> For debugging, you are lucky, I have never been abble to run valgrind
> with gcompris. I wanted at some point to check for memory leak but
> failed. Personaly, i use the command line gdb. ddd is better if you need
> graphical view. Adding trace and recompiling is also a good option.
>
> > I think that I will need some help in order to enter totally the project
> > so as I will be in Toulouse before the end of the year ...
> >
> I'll be glad to see you there. You can come home have a "free" lunch ;)
>
> Bruno.
>
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