Michael, We can make a PPA for 10.4 in the next 24 hours - isn't that soon enough to get Scratch in Lucid?
Amos On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay, they're telling me that even Multiverse packages would need to be > reviewed and approved by this Thursday. They're telling me I should > make a PPA for 10.04, and try to get into the official repos for the > next release. > > -- > Michael Hall > > http://www.qimo4kids.com > "Linux for Kids" > > > On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 19:57 -0500, Amos Blanton wrote: > > Wow, your timing is amazing. I've just been chatting with other > > members of the team trying to figure out how to get into Lucid. > > > > We've just received a fix for some sound issues - so I'll push an > > updated package on our PPA for Karmic soon. I guess I can do the same > > for Lucid using pbuilder? Any tips on how to do this would be > > appreciated - I'm still quite new to this world. > > > > Re: Universe. That could be tricky, because we have a somewhat unique > > license. The Scratch application includes the ability to publish to > > our website, which acts as a repository for Scratch projects. So we > > release the source with some conditions - like that you can't modify > > Scratch and push projects to our server, which could cause problems. > > See "Scratch Source Code license" section here: > > http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Source_Code > > > > So we were planning on going for multiverse. > > > > The final issue has to do with the fact that Scratch is based on > > Squeak. We bundle our own Squeak virtual machine, because the > > squeak-vm in the respositories is very old and has bugs when used to > > run Scratch. If it was updated, we could do some work to depend on it > > instead of including our own with our package (which isn't exactly > > Lintian clean, but I've overridden that). > > > > Any thoughts / tips? > > > > Thanks! > > Amos > > > > On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Michael <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > Would it be possible for you to make a Scratch package for > > Ubuntu 10.04 > > (Lucid)? I have someone in the Edubuntu team willing to > > propose it for > > inclusion in the Universe repository for Lucid, but he needs a > > package > > before Thursday to get it approved for the package freeze > > (sorry for the > > rush, I just found your PPA today). > > > > -- > > Michael Hall > > > > http://www.qimo4kids.com > > "Linux for Kids" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > _____ > > Amos > > > > -- _____ Amos
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