Hi mentors, I have recently released a package for Wims, distributed under GPL. Wims is a an interactive web exercise server, featuring one simple language for exercise generation, and a more complete language which allows to benefit from almost every interesting application running on a gnulinux base. It already comes with a load of exercises, mainly ine the matematic and scientific field. Other features are virtual class handling, powerful random generators for the creation of dynamic exercises, and strong anti-cheating mechanisms which allow to organize inline exams controlled by the wims server. You can test it inline at http://wims.unice.fr/wims/ , and find the upstream sources on the same site. Previous versions of this package were made by Raphael Hertzog, for a french education distribution (DebianEducation), just before he created the debian-edu development group. I released successive versions based on this first packaging, trying to make them more FHS-compliant. It became more and more difficult to avoid multiple bugs, as the upstream versions grew more powerful and more complicated. This work had been sponsored by John O'Sullivan, who is no more part of the debian directory. As bugs needed an increasing number of random hacks and workarounds, I decided this summer to repackage Wims from scratch, with the help of some scripts to highlight all parts of the upstream tree which needed to be moved and relinked to comply with the FHS. Meanwhile, Gang Xiao, the author of Wims, integrated new features into his development like support for PNG and MNG generation as an alternative for GIF, making obsolete patches I wrote to output images and animations with a good compression ratio, using free software. So I released recently a version 3.40 of wims, which corrects the bugs reported about version 3.28, and whose packaging is more readable and understandable, offers more working features (because a more strict FHS compliance) than the buggy 3.28 package, which suffers from many bugs. Please find at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=275827&msg=18&att=0 a recent discussion about it. I'b be glad to encounter a sponsor to upload the last package, which is already used by association OFSET for Freeduc-CD (see http://ofset.org/freeduc-cd), available at deb ftp://developer.ofset.org sarge main deb-src ftp://developer.ofset.org sarge main Best regards, Georges. -- Georges KHAZNADAR et Jocelyne FOURNIER 22 rue des mouettes, 59240 Dunkerque France. Téléphone +33 (0)3 28 29 17 70
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