Question

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 07:22:44AM -0500, Martin Owens wrote:

> http://www.mcgo.org.mk/toolkid.htm

> http://eurologo2005.oeiizk.waw.pl/PDF/E2005IvanovIlieva.pdf

> The program 'ToolKid' looks like a educational tool for teaching
> programming concepts based on Logo.

> It may be possible to replicate some of the functionality to the Logo
> tools currently available and I can only see the following paths in
> order of least work and greatest benefit:

>  1) Get in touch with the makers of ToolKid and persuade them to make it
> Open Source software. They don't have to make their content free and you
> could even pay them to license the code as GPL for instance.
>  2) Convince the makers of ToolKid to make a proprietary port to Ubuntu
> and tie it's working on Ubuntu to the contract.
>  3) Find and/or develop the existing available Logo teaching tools
> available in the repository and convince the MCGO to use that instead.
> See eToys and KTurtle in the repositories.
>  4) Develop fixes for wine that enable the windows version of toolkid to
> run under ubuntu.
>  5) Install windows xp on all your machines and use that instead of
> ubuntu.

5) is not an option because as stated at the root of the thread, the
machines are not theirs to install Windows on.  These are the systems that
are part of the Ubuntu school deployment in Macedonia.

I think 4) should be given greater emphasis here.  With Wine claiming "1.0"
status, it should be entirely possible to get this software working under
Wine, possibly with bugfixes to Wine that benefit users trying to get other
Windows applications working under Ubuntu.  But the toolkid url above
doesn't appear to include a download link, and no specifics have been given
in this thread about how ToolKid fails under Wine; without that, there's not
much opportunity for forward progress.

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