El lun, 25-05-2009 a las 22:00 -0400, Christopher Olah escribió: > Greetings All! > > While we are discussing "Edubuntu's focus, and future." it seems > like an appropriate time bring up a topic thats been discussed > occasionally in the past: packaging books. apt could have packages for > books that install them in /usr/books or /usr/share/books... > > Doing this has several advantages: > > - Promotes Open Books > - Is convenient for schools (create a metapackage for a > standard set of books for CS labs) > - Is useful for when your offline. > - Puts everything in one spot. > - Integrates it with the way software is managed. > - et cetera... > > But despite hearing occasional comments on it, nothing to this end > seems to be being done. So my questions are: > > - Is someone working on it? Who? > - If not, is there some fatal flaw in this idea. > > If I've just missed something, then apologies in advance. > That idea is something I've tried to implement sometimes, but I've always crashed against the same wall: Most educative books include flash animations or pdf files. When they include flash animations, sometimes I even have the sources and a free license, but I have no idea of how to compile flash sources to get the swf files. Maybe using ming or mtasc it can be done, but that's a field I don't know. If someone knows how to do it, it would be a needed step to package educative books and upload them to Debian. As an example of what I mean: flowplayer[1] or xspf player[2] work perfectly in gnash (lenny version) and are gpl'ed apps. Can they be compiled in a free OS? Any help on how making a Debian package that compile swf files would be very welcome. Regards José L. [1] http://flowplayer.org/ [2] http://musicplayer.sourceforge.net/
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