Ah, this is great Derek! And thanks again for all your hard work with the plugin as well - it's so nice to have fully functional recording. I hope you have a relaxing and pleasant vacation. :)
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Derek O'Connell <[email protected]>wrote: > That's a pity after all your hard work but getting into the next Debian > release is a good thing to aim for. > > Re Kubuntu, I took a quick look at the change, it's certainly avoiding > the problem but is really only a short term solution. What is required > is to detect which desktop managers (DM's) are installed (could be two > or more) and do any postinst set-up for *each* of them. Better yet (I > think I mentioned this a while back) consult freedesktop.org since it is > all about desktop interoperability. If the Scratch install scripts are > designed around freedesktop.org specifications then they can be mostly > independent of any specific DM. There will always be some wrinkles per > DM, such as sound server/drivers installed, but the freedesktop route is > definitely recommended. Some links below. I would offer to help but I > have a busy week ahead and then I'm on holiday for two weeks (on the > piste ;-) ). > > For an overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedesktop.org > > *The* site: http://www.freedesktop.org/ > > All these desktops are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landings there: > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Desktops > > Specifications: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications > > Interesting specs: > - http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktop-entry-spec > - http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/menu-spec > - http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/basedir-spec > - http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/icon-theme-spec > > HTH, > > -D > > On 17/02/2010 21:33, Amos Blanton wrote: > > Having tried to get the Scratch package into Lucid, I've learned a lot > about > > the process. Unfortunately, it sounds like we would have needed to start > > submitting / REVUing about 2 weeks ago. I met an extremely helpful and > > friendly MOTU called persia - but they said even they couldn't get it in > if > > they owned it at this point. (Officially, things are frozen in about a > 1/2 > > hour from now or so). > > > > I wish I'd started the REVU process earlier! Turns out we could have > easily > > added the improved plugin later - an easy fix once we had all the > packaging > > issues worked out. > > > > There are, however, 3 more weeks until Debian's feature freeze. And if we > > get in there, we'll get put into future Ubuntu releases automagically. > And > > meanwhile of course we have the PPA - and I think I'll add the package to > > our downloads page soon. So all and all it'll be about like it is for > users > > of Windows and Mac. > > > > Oh - and a MOTU helped me fix (I think) the bug that was causing problems > > with installation in Kubuntu. Still need to test things though - but it > > seems likely to work better. > > > > To Do next: isolate the source for the package into a tarball so it can > be > > easily packaged for any distro. That's going to take a little work... > > > > Scratch On! > > Amos > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Derek O'Connell <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > >> I will be back on-line for a few hours in an hr or so. Will try to > figure > >> it out between us then. > >> > >> > >> On 17/02/2010 19:23, Amos Blanton wrote: > >> > >> Hi All - > >> > >> It's looking like we started a bit too late to get into multiverse - > alas. > >> Had I known how complex the process was, I would have gotten started > >> earlier! > >> > >> Currently the major roadblock has to do with incorrect versioning. Our > >> package was originally a native debian package (I think because Mako's > >> original plan was to push to Debian first?), and now it seems it should > be > >> non-native. The conversion might be trivial for someone with more > experience > >> in these matters -- it isn't for me. > >> > >> Here's the gist of it as expressed by a motu on ubuntu-motu irc at > freenode: > >> ". just generate a proper tarball out of pristine svn sources (svn > export, > >> tar -czf) and amend the version in debian/changelog to use > >> <upstreamversion>-0ubuntu1 > >> (11:44:04 AM) hyperair: where <upstreamversion> is from > >> scratch_<upstreamversion>. > >> orig.tar.gz" > >> > >> If anyone out there can do this and coordinate the rest of the necessary > >> changes to the control / rules files, etc., the source is here: > https://www.assembla.com/spaces/scratchonlinux/trac_subversion_tool > >> > >> -Amos > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mailing list: > >> https://launchpad.net/~scratch<https://launchpad.net/%7Escratch>< > https://launchpad.net/%7Escratch> > >> Post to : [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe : > >> https://launchpad.net/~scratch<https://launchpad.net/%7Escratch>< > https://launchpad.net/%7Escratch> > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > -- _____ Amos
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