Hi Martin,
Sorry, was away all the day yesterday.
Martin Hollmichel a écrit :
eric.bachard wrote:
[please continue the discussion on the [email protected] mailing list]
The OpenOffice.org Education Project proposes to drive the following
experimentation :
- create a dedicated branch in the OOo source code repository (means
hosted by OOo Project) for a 7-12 years software, derivated from
OpenOffice.org, and made and maintained by OpenOffice.org project.
I like and support this idea,
Thank you very much for your support :-)
Formally : create a new branch, completely independent of , including
milestones, like OOo does
what do you mean by completly independent ?
Not sure wy wentence was enough precise, and the reasons are multiple:
First, if we provide commit access to students, we take some risks, and
avoir them to commit on DEV300 or whatever other branch would be great.
Second, to avoid legal issues, we replaced the Sun copyrighted icons and
everything we considered as causing such issue with new icons and other
design. At other places, e.g. with the png loader I implemented for the
splashscreen (saving 340 kB in the binary), we added new files, who are
used just in case the build env OOo4Kids is defined, we modified the
start centre, will reuse (in 2.x) it as "design pattern" for new
wizards, ad so on. Last, but not least, the current localization on
windows (NSIS) breaks the current OOO .sdf files. Not sure this will be
easy to mix all that with OOo source code.
As reminder, the 1.0 goals are only :
- decrease the binary size (the current archive is around 80MB on
windows, 272 MB decompressed)
- be sure it works on poor in ram and powerless machines, e.g. on XO **
- be stable and work as correctly as possible on Windows (I did the
port), Mac OS X (PowerPC and Intel), and Linux (all possible ports)
- make a first approach with simplify the UI, in touch with teachers,
respecting their need.
Open question : will all locales have the same needs for 7-12 children ?
Major changes will concern the 2.x or superior (everything is explained
on http://wiki.ooo4Kids.org )
.. and so on
I hope all of this (maybe I forgot other reasons), will help you to
understand what I meant with independance.
I would expect that this branch should kept in sync with OOo releases ?
Yes, that's the case: the 1.0 version uses and is in sync with the 3.2
branch (I resync'ed my changes with DEV300_m54). Once the OOO320 branch
will be created, we'll continue with it.
Regards,
Eric
**see :
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project/Effort#Various_adaptations__on_Sugar_-_i.e._Linux_-_.28click_me.29
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