Michael, that sounds great! :) You might want to join forces with the other people working on packages that depend on Squeak (e.g. Etoys, and Sugar). I'm copying the pkg-squeak-devel mailing list on alioth ...
- Bert - On 11.10.2010, at 10:27, Amos Blanton wrote: > Hi Michael, > > It's great that you'd like to help get Scratch running properly in Debian. > AFAIK, no one else is working on this. Here's the link to a page with > information about Scratch on Linux (which includes links to the source). > > http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_on_Linux > > I know that Debian uses slightly different versioning. Perhaps we should make > a fork in our SVN repository? > > However, if we ended up with an official Debian package that works fine in > Ubuntu as well, that would be satisfactory. > > Amos > Scratch Team > http://scratch.mit.edu/ > > > On 10/05/2010 05:01 AM, John Maloney wrote: >> Hi, Michael. >> >> Thanks for clarifying that you were volunteering to help; that's wonderful! >> >> We'll have to wait until Amos gets back next Tuesday (Oct 12) to get an >> answer to your question about the status of others working on a Debian >> package. >> >> Note that the Scratch source license includes a "non-commercial" clause that >> disqualifies Scratch from being included on some of Ubuntu's repositories. I >> suspect the same is probably true for Debian. We're okay with that, and it >> is still be very useful to make a Debian package available to folks, even if >> it can't be included in "open source only" repositories. >> >> Thanks again for offering to help! >> >> -- John >> >> >> On Oct 4, 2010, at 11:57 PM, Michael Hanke wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 11:39:10PM +0200, John Maloney wrote: >>> <snip> >>>> Please understand, since we give Scratch away for free, we don't >>>> have a lot of resources. And since there are many flavors of Linux >>>> we were hoping that if we created an Ubuntu package then volunteers >>>> from the community would port that to other flavors of Linux. I >>>> think someone is already working on a Debian package but if you >>>> would like to help out, let me and Amos know. >>> >>> Just to make sure you got me right: >>> >>> >>> I was able to get scratch running fine. I am volunteering to port it >>> probably to Debian ;-) I just want to make sure that you are fine with >>> that, that nobody else is working on it right now (to prevent wasteful >>> duplication) and you are aware of this effort. >>> >>> @Amos: I'd be glad if you could contact me regarding the status of the >>> packaging once you are back. >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Michael >>> >>> >>> -- >>> GPG key: 1024D/3144BE0F Michael Hanke >>> http://mih.voxindeserto.de >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~scratch > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~scratch > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~scratch Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~scratch More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
