1 Rurple NG, an environment for teaching programming to beginners
3 Development version, Paul Crowley, paul@lshift.net, 2009
5 http://dev.lshift.net/paul/rurple/
7 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
10 (at your option) any later version.
12 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
15 GNU General Public License for more details.
17 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
19 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
21 Rurple NG is a reimplementation from scratch of André Roberge's marvellous
22 RUR-PLE: http://rur-ple.sourceforge.net/
24 This is an early release of RUR-PLE. On top of the failings listed in the manual, the biggest thing it lacks is a working build system. In order to get a working build of the Windows installer you need to follow the following steps:
26 - Build the manual. This is all the "SConstruct" file supplied currently does, and it currently uses a Linux specific hard-coded path for finding the relevant DocBook style sheet. Running an XSLT processor by hand should work equally well; the manual should end up in "build\html\index.html".
28 - Build the executable with "python setup.py py2exe". You will need py2exe and the wxPython library.
30 - Run "build.bat" to build the installer. You will need WiX installed.
32 I'd very much like to wrap all of these steps into the SConstruct file in a way that works under Windows. I'd also of course like to produce a .deb file suitable for Debian and Ubuntu based systems. Help in this area would be very much appreciated.
34 -- Paul Crowley, 2009-08-30