[Savannah-hackers] submission of Rigobot - savannah.nongnu.org

[Damien . Pous]

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Damien <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: Rigobot
System name: rigobot
Type: non-GNU

Description:
Rigobot is a project that aims at learning some aspects of event oriented 
programming to children from six to fifteen years old. 
It would be specially used at schools, clubs, ...
Several years ago Logo was developped for this goal (for imperative 
programming), but nowadays, it is somewhat deprecated due to its lack of nice 
graphics and user-interface. 
Our idea is to let users program the behavior of a robot that moves in a 
three-dimensional world, rendered with openGL... 
Tutorials and Exercises will be provided, as well as a network mode allowing 
users to see their robots together in the virtual world.
Colobot <www.colobot.com> is such a project, but it is far from being 
free/open... (License for schools costs $500), and is a little bit too game 
oriented.

Lot of schools beeing currently using MSWindows, the program will be ported to 
this prioprietary \"OS\", BUT, being developped under GNU/Linux, we ensure that 
the GNU/Linux (base)-version will never be in disadvantage with the MSWindows 
version.

Ocaml was chosen for the programming langage for its portability, suitability 
to openGL, debugging facilities and performances.

The project is in the early stage of its development, a web-site currently 
resides at <http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~tgazagna/rigobot/index.html>, 
there are links to a snapshot of the devel branch, as well as a more indeep 
description of the project and its goals (in french :-).


Other Software Required:
the program is written in ocaml, therefore it needs a complete installation of 
ocaml 3.04 in order to compile, but, binaries won\'t need it.

currently, the program depends on the following (\'non-standard\') libraries :
* tcl/tk 8.3
* openGL (or mesa)
* GLUT

there shouln\'t be a lot of additional dependencies.


Other Comments:
contact : address@hidden
website : http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~tgazagna/rigobot/index.html