KA Lite no longer actively developed.

[Mortvert]

Hello again.

No idea if this is known (I did search issues and found nothing) but apparently KA Lite is being replaced by Kolibri (as per https://kalite.learningequality.org/)

Are there any plans to replace KA Lite entirely in IIAB?

Please close this issue if it is irrelevant to the project as a whole, thank you and sorry if that's the case.

[holta]

KA Lite is much more compact and lightweight as compared to Kolibri.

IIAB continues to support both, as they each serve a very distinct and valuable purpose:

• Those who have lots of disk and CPU and are fortunate enough to have a large budget for Curricular Alignment (aligning the best OER's with official government curriculum and syllabus etc) generally prefer Kolibri.

• Conversely many others strongly prefer KA Lite, as they work in very low-income communities, needing proven/reliable access to Khan Academy, on an extremely small budgetary footprint. Alongside other "small footprint" OER's offered by Internet-in-a-Box for example.

Quick Recap: each of these 2 products delivers an incredibly valuable service — but in a very different way — depending on the specific field need.

[holta]

FYI KA Lite is unlikely to make sense for anybody in 2030 — as Kolibri & similar bring far more modern UX, and increasingly far more modern content!

But just FYI @Mortvert, KA Lite has been given a small lease-on-life here, in case that helps you and others in the meantime:

• PR Python2 fix [for KA Lite on Debian 12 or Ubuntu 23.04 / 23.10] #3527

Related:

• BUG: Install fails on pre-release Ubuntu 23.04 [KA Lite requires Python 2] #3450

[holta]

FYI @Mortvert, KA Lite has been given a small lease-on-life here, in case that helps you and others in the meantime:

• PR Python2 fix [for KA Lite on Debian 12 or Ubuntu 23.04 / 23.10] #3527

FYI further refined by:

• PR Python2 fix [for KA Lite on Debian 12 or Ubuntu 23.04 / 23.10] #3534
• PR notes and dependencies [for Python 2 on new OS's on {amd64, arm64, armhf}. Tested on Debian 12 & Ubuntu 23.04] #3535

Tanentially related:

• Strange switch to 64bit kernel on 32bit RasPiOS [on 64-bit CPU architectures] #3516
  • Explained at: Block iiab-install of JupyterHub & Calibre-Web on 32-bit OS's, til RasPiOS fixes Rust, wheels / cryptography #3422 (comment)

[holta]

Further refined (for Ubuntu 23.10+) by:

• PR 'pip install virtualenv==20.21.1' for Python 2 required by KA Lite on Ubuntu 23.10 #3582
• PR Pin python3-platformdirs & python3-virtualenv to 22.04 versions, for Python 2 on Ubuntu 23.10+ ? [try apt instead of pip, for KA Lite] #3587