SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

[Gary C Martin]

Hi Ben,

On 29 Aug 2009, at 18:24, Ben Wiley Sittler wrote:

> I think, then, that I would rather just ship it as an activity bundle
> for "Sugar+Java or Sugar+OpenJDK", since the versioning issues (which
> OpenJDK version should I use, exactly?), licensing issues (GPLv2 &
> GPLv2+classpath-exception for OpenJDK vs. GPLv3 for SarynPaint,)
> packaging unknowns (how does one run OpenJDK from a subdirectory,
> exactly?), and bloat make bundling a JRE inside the .xo ridiculously
> impractical. I'm halfway tempted to try to subset OpenJDK for this (to
> reduce bloat), but that seems like an even bigger nightmare.

Sorry if this is a controversial comment, but would you considered  
porting the code to Python? It looks like a nice starter chunk of code  
for someone interested in Python and or Sugar Activities.

Regards,
--Gary