Re: [Scratch] Curious

2010-02-16 Thread Amos Blanton
Hi All - Derek and I talked a bit about this on another thread. I removed the source for the pulse plugin because it doesn't really get built as part of the packaging process (that would require us to have an environment setup in which we could build the squeak-vm). Since we just include the

[Scratch] Getting into multiverse looking rather unlikely...

2010-02-17 Thread Amos Blanton
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

Re: [Scratch] Install on RedHat/Fedora/CentOS

2010-03-18 Thread Amos Blanton
Hi Kevin, Sorry for the delay in getting back to you! Comments below... On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:52 AM, ksome...@brokenlogo.com wrote: I've made RPMs before, a long time ago, but I can figure it out again. That's great! It'd be wonderful to have an rpm of Scratch. By the way - the

[Scratch] Scratch Java applet plays back midi on Linux?

2010-03-29 Thread Amos Blanton
Recently I noticed that when I view this project in my FF browser, I can hear the midi music: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/zxz1661/947956 That means something in the browser or java applet is processing midi and playing it back on my _Linux_ system. Andres, does it work for you too? The only

Re: [Scratch] Please help -- errors while compiling Scratch tarball (T#562835)

2010-05-11 Thread Amos Blanton
. Jean Amos Blanton wrote: Hello Jean, Just today we made a beta .rpm package of Scratch available on our website. This package was contributed by a community member, and needs testing. Please try it out and let us know how things go. http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_on_Linux

Re: [Scratch] A few patches for scratch

2010-05-12 Thread Amos Blanton
, May 11, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Derek O'Connell d...@doconnel.f9.co.ukwrote: On 11/05/10 15:29, Amos Blanton wrote: For the sake of distros that don't use pulseaudio, we probably shouldn't make pulseaudio a dependency anyway. But in order to change that, we need some logic in the scratch startup

Re: [Scratch] Interested in packaging Scratch for Fedora

2011-01-17 Thread Amos Blanton
Hi Mike, It's great that you are interested in packaging Scratch for Fedora. Scratch does contain an mp3 implementation. Right now our efforts are focused on creating a version of Scratch that will run in the browser, so we won't be making many changes to the Squeak version. So perhaps the

Re: [Scratch] miry approved by amos-scratch

2011-03-16 Thread Amos Blanton
Miriam, This is great! I was under the impression that there were issues with the pre-packaged squeak-vm on Ubuntu that prevented us from using it. This kept us from solving the 64 bit packaging problem. I plan to test your package out soon but am a bit swamped at the moment -- have you

Re: [Scratch] Scratch PPA for Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal

2011-05-01 Thread Amos Blanton
Hi Brian, Thanks for the reminder. I've copied the package from Maverick to Natty - should be all set, but if you encounter any problems, please let us know. Scratch On! Amos Scratch Team On 04/29/2011 05:56 PM, Brian Vaughan wrote: Hello, Scratch maintainers, I was wondering when the

Re: [Scratch] Scratch in universe or Ubuntu Software Center

2011-05-13 Thread Amos Blanton
On 05/13/2011 09:13 PM, John Pugh wrote: And the other way it is. The other way will require a distribution agreement - is that something that can be signed on behalf of Scratch? I can't promise till I see it and show it to others on the Scratch Team. But I think that it's very likely we will

[Scratch] Source for vm-sound-pulse for Scratch

2011-05-16 Thread Amos Blanton
Greetings Derek - Hope you are doing well! We're making some updates for the Scratch for Linux package. We'd like to start depending on the Squeak-vm that is now available in the Ubuntu Natty repositories: http://packages.ubuntu.com/ca/natty/squeak-vm

Re: [Scratch] Source for vm-sound-pulse for Scratch

2011-05-18 Thread Amos Blanton
:42, Amos Blanton wrote: Greetings Derek - Hope you are doing well! We're making some updates for the Scratch for Linux package. We'd like to start depending on the Squeak-vm that is now available in the Ubuntu Natty repositories: http://packages.ubuntu.com/ca/natty/squeak-vm http

Re: [Scratch] Q: apt-get Scratch for ARM (not i386)?

2011-05-20 Thread Amos Blanton
Wow, amazing! Thanks Miry. :) On 05/20/2011 02:45 AM, Miriam Ruiz wrote: 2011/5/20 Miriam Ruizmir...@debian.org: You have working Debian packages of Scratch for ARM: http://www.miriamruiz.es/scratch/ Oh, I forgot: The source of the packages is here, BTW:

Re: [Scratch] No support for LEGO WeDo in Scratch on Linux

2011-05-26 Thread Amos Blanton
. Thanks, Amos On 05/16/2011 03:23 AM, Michael Vorburger wrote: oh? great! let me know if you need a beta tester.. http://vorburger.ch On May 15, 2011 6:51 PM, Amos Blanton a...@scratch.mit.edu mailto:a...@scratch.mit.edu wrote: Hi Michael, You'll be happy to know myself and a few other

Re: [Scratch] Scratch package for Gentoo Linux

2011-05-31 Thread Amos Blanton
Cool! Thanks for doing this. One potential gotcha is that Scratch has a custom license. http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_License So if you have any questions about that or anything else, write to let us know. Also - I'm not familiar with ebuilds - so I'm not quite sure how they work.

[Scratch] 64 bit Squeak VM 4.0.3-2202 running Scratch with pulse plugin causes crashe on sound playback / recording

2011-06-07 Thread Amos Blanton
Recording and playback work with the pulse-audio plugin from the repositories on 32 bit systems. (Great!) Unfortunately, I receive a crash when running Scratch with the 64 bit VM / pulse-audio plugin: But pressing play on the meow sound causes this to happen: Segmentation fault 10307732 [] in

Re: [Scratch] 64-bit scratch package for Ubuntu Linux

2011-10-11 Thread Amos Blanton
Is it that easy?! That would be so great... :) However, it looks like all means all architectures, and we don't expect it'll work on stuff like powerpc. Also, the plugins won't compile properly for 64 bit architectures AFAIK. I think that's our roadblock. Do you think it's worth trying

[Scratch] Solving the lack of a 64 bit squeak-vm problem with i386 multiarch package

2011-10-19 Thread Amos Blanton
I've been interested in the support for multiarch in Oneiric. Seems like this makes it possible for us to make a 32 bit Scratch package that would be installable on 64 bit systems without requiring the user to go the command line and use -f. (i.e. straight from a ppa or, eventually, from the

Re: [Scratch] Scratch for Arch Linux

2011-11-28 Thread Amos Blanton
Hey Jonathan, Yep, we do have a tar.gz - and you should look for a (slightly) updated one in the near future. We've been working on re-licensing Scratch with the GPL v2 and it's looking promising. We'll make an announcement in the forums and on the Scratch on Linux page when the process is

Re: [Scratch] Installing Scratch from Ubuntu PPA on 11.10

2011-12-02 Thread Amos Blanton
No, net yet - but you should be able to install the Maverick build successfully. You can download it directly from the .ppa, or from our website. On 12/02/2011 03:11 AM, Chris Puttick wrote: Hi I am trying to install Scratch on to Kubuntu 11.10 netbooks for a junior school. I've added the

Re: [Scratch] Fwd: Re: Bug#471927: Scratch 1.4 source code released under GPL v2

2012-04-09 Thread Amos Blanton
Source package updated to 1.4.0.5, now available here: http://info.scratch.mit.edu/GPLv2_Licensed_Scratch_Code Recent changes: Includes Squeak changes file Instructions for downloading / installing Squeak sources file added to readme Changed license on included media to DFSG compatible

Re: [Scratch] Scratch on Linux - 64 bit

2012-04-29 Thread Amos Blanton
Thanks Wayne! I've updated the page. Let us know if you have additional suggestions! On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Wayne Chin wayne.c...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to make a suggestion to add a line to the http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_on_Linux page. For 64 bit systems, please

Re: [Scratch] [Vm-dev] Help/advice tracking down a squeak-vm regression

2012-05-29 Thread Amos Blanton
Bert, I took off on a bunch of travels and some vacation just after you made this fix, and didn't have a chance to test. But now I've spent a little time testing, and things seem to be working great! Not only does your fixed image work well on 32 bit ubuntu, but it seems to work ok even when run

[Scratch] Scratch source code version 1.4.0.6 released

2012-06-04 Thread Amos Blanton
We've released an update to the GPL v2 Scratch source codehttp://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_1.4_Source_GPL , now available here: http://download.scratch.mit.edu/scratch-1.4.0.6.src.tar.gz 1.4.0.6 changes: * Fix for blank screen bug when image is run on current Squeak VMs (Thanks to Bert

Re: [Scratch] Scratch source code version 1.4.0.6 released

2012-06-05 Thread Amos Blanton
. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/squeak-vm/+bug/1009080 All seems to work great on 32 bit systems. :) On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Miriam Ruiz mir...@debian.org wrote: 2012/6/5 Amos Blanton a...@scratch.mit.edu: We've released an update to the GPL v2 Scratch source code , now

Re: [Scratch] Joining Scratch group

2012-06-06 Thread Amos Blanton
Great! Welcome, Paul. :) I've added you to the launchpad group. On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Paul Shirren shi...@shirro.com wrote: Hi, I would like to join your group, mainly to subscribe to the mailing list and keep up to date for a few months or until Scratch is solid on the Raspberry

[Scratch] Delete scratch launchpad PPA, assembla site?

2012-06-06 Thread Amos Blanton
Hi Miry, Does it makes sense to close or erase the Scratch PPA on launchpad? Or would you like to push your latest package to it, and use it for development releases? I'll have less and less time to devote to this as time goes on (although, I'm happy to remain a contact / resource). But* *I'd

Re: [Scratch] need help

2012-06-21 Thread Amos Blanton
Ah, then the file download didn't complete. Try downloading again - and be sure to wait until it is complete (might take a few minutes.) On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Francoise Fox fox.franco...@gmail.comwrote: I looked at its properties and its 0 bytes?

Re: [Scratch] scratching the itch

2012-06-25 Thread Amos Blanton
Hey Mike, Awesome! Glad to hear the install went ok. Btw, we're hoping to get Scratch into the main repositories for ubuntu soon, so that should make it even easier. -Amos On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:44 AM, Mike Perkins perkins...@gmail.com wrote: Just downloaded scratch on my 64 bit Ubuntu

[Scratch] Fwd: Scratch in Debian

2012-07-03 Thread Amos Blanton
w00t! It's in the next rev of Ubuntu as well - should get backported to 12.04 soon. :) -- Forwarded message -- From: Miriam Ruiz mir...@debian.org Date: Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 7:51 PM Subject: Scratch in Debian To: Amos Blanton a...@scratch.mit.edu Hi Amos! We did it! Scratch

Re: [Scratch] [unix] X11 display problem (was: Shrinking windows when Scratch is run on 4.4.7-2357 VM, Ubuntu 12.04 64bit)

2012-07-30 Thread Amos Blanton
Removing the -xshm switch when executing the VM fixes this bug, which has to do with some kind of issue with the use of X shared memory extensions and compiz. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scratch/+bug/1025013 On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Amos Blanton a...@scratch.mit.edu wrote

Re: [Scratch] packaging scratch for fedora -- a few comments and questions

2012-09-10 Thread Amos Blanton
Hi Matt, Haven't heard much about packaging for Fedora in a while until two separate threads started up today! Below is message from David Busby, which has links to his work on an rpm. I'll include it in case there's overlap. re: mp3 / midi binaries. Thanks, I'll remove those in the next

Re: [Scratch] packaging scratch for fedora -- a few comments and questions

2012-09-10 Thread Amos Blanton
- perhaps if we do a Scratch 1.4.1 (minimal bug fixes / additional of translation files) release someday after the release of Scratch 2.0. -Amos On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Amos Blanton a...@scratch.mit.edu wrote: Hi Matt, Haven't heard much about packaging for Fedora in a while until two

Re: [Scratch] packaging scratch for fedora -- a few comments and questions

2012-09-10 Thread Amos Blanton
Sure! We need all the help we can get. :) On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@mattdm.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:06:34PM -0400, Amos Blanton wrote: So I talked over the issue of .ogg support with my colleagues, and it seems I may have spoken a bit prematurely

[Scratch] [Bug 1025013] Re: Resize scratch window, it doesn't update, goes black, and shrinks to a vertical strip in Unity-3D.

2012-09-18 Thread Amos Blanton
Hi David: Here's a fix. In a terminal, type: sudo gedit /usr/bin/scratch You'll see a line that starts with VMOPTIONS. Remove the -xshm from that line, so it looks like this: VMOPTIONS=-encoding UTF-8 -vm-display-x11 -plugins /usr/lib/scratch/plugins/:$SQ_DIR/ Save the file. Scratch should no

[Scratch] [Bug 1025013] Re: Resize scratch window, it doesn't update, goes black, and shrinks to a vertical strip in Unity-3D.

2012-09-21 Thread Amos Blanton
I've made an edit to the debian scratch repository, here: https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-squeak/ After some testing, they should submit an update containing this and other fixes soon. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Scratch Maintainers, which is

Re: [Scratch] bug leaving presentation mode with squeak-vm 4.10.2-2614

2012-11-26 Thread Amos Blanton
Hi Mathew, Thanks for working on this! I've pinged John Maloney about it but I'm not sure he'll have much to add. Feel free to email both lists in the future. John (our lone Squeak programmer) is quite focused on Scratch 2.0 at the moment, but after the release he may have a little more time to