[Pkg-squeak-devel] [Scratch] Debian package for scratch

[Bert Freudenberg]

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
>> 
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