On 01.02.2010, at 14:31, Amos Blanton wrote: > Hi John, > > Lucid Lynx, the next version of Scratch, will be on feature freeze Feb. 18.
The next version of Ubuntu you meant :) > So we'd like to submit a package to be included in it, ready or not, before > that date. (We can hopefully submit fixes after that date, but the process > gets trickier). Mako has agreed to sponsor it. He suggested, however, that we > submit a version of the package that depends on the squeak-vm in the ubuntu > repositories (1.3.9.8-3ubuntu3)instead of including its own VM (3.10 - 4 beta > #1 dated Feb. 2009), which is how we've done it so far. Even the latest VM does not include the Scratch-specific plugins yet. I started pushing for this a while ago but haven't spend much time myself on it. Would be good if you Scratch folks would work with the Squeak VM developers and packagers more closely. > It's easy to switch to using the Squeak-vm from the ubuntu repositories, but > it introduces a new bug when Scratch is run under Compiz. It causes the > Scratch cat and other sprites to be "see through" ( see attached image ) Note > that it's possible to see text on windows underneath the Scratch window > through the representations of the icons - but not clearly. Kind of an > interesting bug! I fixed that back in 2008. Was in the 3.10.4 release. > So it seems likely this might be caused by the VM - but I thought I'd check > with you to see if maybe there is a workaround, or some solution that could > be implemented in Scratch. If not, can we ask someone to submit a newer > version of the VM for inclusion in the Ubuntu repositories? > > -Amos José just submitted the 3.11.3 squeak-vm to Debian: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-squeak-devel/2010-January/000023.html I think that should trickle down to Ubuntu in time, though I don't know the actual process. I'd cc Debian's pkg-squeak-devel which deals with packaging squeak-related stuff. Also the Ubuntu Sugar Team. And Squeak's vm-dev list of course where the vm developers hang out. But since you didn't even send this message to the public list at launchpad, I won't. - Bert - _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~scratch Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~scratch More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
