Re: Possible educational software links

[Jan Hlavacek <lahvak@math.ohio-state.edu>]

On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 04:10:19PM -0400, Egon Ipse wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I just got these two links from logo-l, I think they could be useful.  I
> think especially the first one looks nice.  I'm going to give it a try
> as soon as I have little bit of time.
> 
> http://www.santafe.edu/projects/swarm/

I installed swarm on solaris last night.  PITA! I couldn't use the
binary packages, as they turned out to be incompatible with some of
other libraries (namely tcl/tk, of course >:|) on my machine.  I
recompiled nearly everything, installed it (went fairly smoothly, but
took forever).  Today I downloaded the applications, tried them,
compiled them after a lot of effort, only to get totally totally
unfunctional executables.  It may be a misconfiguration problem on my
side (probably is, my system is a mess right now).  Maybe using linux
packages will work well.  I don't have access to a linux machine at the
moment,  when I get one, I'll give it another try.  But my overall
impression is that swarm is just to complicated to be used at school
environment.  A pity, it looks like a great system.

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Jan Hlav\'{a}\v{c}ek
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