Hi Ralph, I'm sorry I took so long to answer, we've been quite busy here...
If you decide to work on top of what's already been ported, you can rely on us for any questions you may have, no worries. If you go for the original Scratch code, I guess we could also help you on portability and architecture-related questions. We know the name is a bit unfortunate... it was chosen after scat singing<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scat_singing> without being aware the word had other not-so-educational meanings. Anyway, any trouble you may have understanding the code, you can use our mailing list at [email protected] to communicate with us and we'll gladly try to help you, although I have to admit there are parts of the code that we don't even begin to understand and probably not even their author does anymore... Good luck! Bernat. 2011/12/22 Ralph Boland <[email protected]> > Bernat Romagosa <tibabenfortlapalanca@...> writes: > > > > > > > Hi list, > > > > Joan Güell and I have been working on Scat -the Scratch port to > Pharo- quite a > lot recently. We wanted to push it to a point where we could release the > first > reasonably working version, which we've just managed today. > > > > > > Please take a look at the release announcement (which should be read in > a bit > of a humorous tone), in which we explain what's up with the project and > what > future is left for it. > > > > > > > > For the tl;dr version, please read: > > > > > > Many things are working, many aren't, but the state of the project > allows us > to move into more interesting stuff based on the graphic programming > metaphor. > > > > Scat is a time-consuming, brain-smashing, life sucking-project. > > We no longer will be maintaining this massive unmaintainable code. > > Suddenly: free time for other projects! > > > > > > Cheers everyone! > > > > -- Bernat Romagosa. > > > > > > I do not wish to take over the Scat project but I am interested in helping > bringing it forward. My interest is in only a portion of Scat. As an > example > of what I want to do consider the "Enchanting" project that uses Scratch to > program the Legos Mindstorms toy robot. Enchanting uses a major portion of > Scratch but some of the interface is replaced by the interface needed by > Enchanting. I am interested in refactoring Scratch (now Scat) so that > projects > such as Enchanting can use the lower level stuff it needs but add its own > stuff, > particularly the GUI part. > This is what I will need to do for the projects, not add things on top of > Scratch (Scat) but on top of (say) 80% of Scat. I have my own projects > that I > want to do someday that would similarly be built on top of a portion of > Scat. > > Ideally I would like someone or some group to take over Scat who could > oversee > work that we could agree that I can do and ideally that work would relate > to the > part of Scat I am interested in. > > So can you place my name as a contact person by anyone taking over Scat. > > Lastly I encourage changing the name of Scat. > > Sincerely, > > Ralph Boland > > > -- Bernat Romagosa.
