Squeak in more than 8000 teachers and kids laptops, need for i18n

Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki at squeakland.org
Tue Feb 28 04:10:15 UTC 2006


  Hilaire,

> >   This may not be a good thing to suggest, but have you considered
> > using the latest Squeakland?  It would be an idea to use something
> > that is already packaged for end-users.
> 
> Why not. Our requierment is to be able to use it as a standalone 
> application (without the need of Internet access for home use), then of 
> course we need it in French. Eventually the components which can not be 
> localized in French will be droped, otherwise I will have trouble with 
> the teachers to use it.

  Then, Squeakland would be an viable option, I would say.

> >   The latest version of Kedama is not exactly packaged, but a big base
> > changeset + a dozen of small patches for Squeakland.  The porting
> > effort from Squeakland to Squeakland 3.8 shouldn't be too big, but may
> > not be too trivial.
> 
> Do you mean from Squeakland to Squeak 3.8 or exactly Squeakland 3.7 to 
> Squeakland 3.8?

  I meant from Squeakland '05 to Squeak 3.8.1.  Squeakland '05 is
based on Squeak 3.8 with bunch of fixes.

> And what about a Monticello package, I think it could be very handy 
> especially to work on a common base to mark string for i18n.
> 
> 
> >   When do you want to have it?
> 
> Deadline is end of may.

  Ok.  *Hopefully*, we should have a working Kedama in 3.8.1 by then
and you'll have options to choose from!

-- Yoshiki



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