Welcome to the GvR community.  The best place to find 
information about GvR is the web.  Put "guido van robot" in the 
search engine and then follow links to our mailing list.

PLATFORM SUPPORT:

As of August 2004, we have three major platforms:

    Linux -- this is where we develop
    Windows -- this is where we sometimes test
    OS/X -- this first started working in version 1.0

The following portability issues affect us:
    
    installation -- our primary beta site is Linux,
        but we also have a Windows installer
    wxPython -- we get cross-platform support by
        using wxPython, but it is not totally
        platform-agnostic at this point; it gets
        better as we go

HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF GVR:

Get involved!  Talk to other teachers, students,
and developers on the project. 

LICENSING:

See INFO.  GvR is free software!

CONFIGURATION OF GVR:

Setting the preferred language in the rc file.

The way gvr handles localization (i18n) is this:

There's a config file called "gvrrc", this file is placed inside the
main source tree on installation.
On GNU/Linux this file is copied to the users home dir while on other
platforms this file is left in the source tree.

GvR looks for this file in the appropriate location and tries to read
the language setting. When it fails or if it's set to "system", the default
value, it reverts to the "hard-coded" English version.

This file is editable on all platforms and should be used to set the language
gvr should use.

There are two ways to edit this file.
1. On *nix systems (NOT OSX), one must edit the file ".gvrrc" inside the
users home dir with a editor. This should be no problem for *nix users.

2. On Win GvR starts with a extra menu option in the "setup" section.
This menu option is not available in *nix or OSX.
When the user set the language from this option then the gvrrc file is
written with the new language setting. 
The user is then prompted to restart GvR. Quite normal for a windows user :-)

I'm not sure what to do on OSX. Please post any ideas to the gvr mailing-list. 

You might ask you self, "Why not an menu entry on *nix??".
Well Steve and I had some discussions about it and came to the
conclusion that a menu option, set-some-value-and-restart-your-app,
would upset normal *nix users :-)   

Stas
