On 22.03.2010, at 21:50, Amos Blanton wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> This is great! I don't have a red hat system with which to test this.
>
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 1:38 AM, Kevin Somervill <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> I need a few things for the spec file, so if you could check the following.
>
> Name: scratch
> Version: 1.4.0
> Release: 1%{?dist}
> Summary: Programming system and content development tool
> Group: Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab
> License: unknown
> URL: http://scratch.mit.edu
> Packager: Kevin Somervill <[email protected]>
> Source0:
> http://info.scratch.mit.edu/sites/infoscratch.media.mit.edu/files/file/scratch_1.4.0.tgz
>
> If the license field can hold non-standard text, you might add a link to:
> http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_License
> If not that's ok.
> If Sourc0 indicates a page that should be watched for updates, it should
> probably be this one:
> http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Linux_Installer
> Group should be: MIT Scratch Team
> Summary should be: easy to use programming environment for ages 8 and up
>
> How attached are you to having the files in /usr/lib/scratch? These are the
> Plugins, Scratch.image, and scratch.ini files and I think they should be in
> /usr/libexec/scratch, as well as the scratch_squeak_vm.
>
> I'm pretty sure it's fine to move these, but the final answer depends on the
> way paths are coded inside the Scratch.image, about which I'm not certain. I
> suspect there are absolute path references to the media / help / language
> files, but probably not to the Plugins, image, and vm. So if everything works
> when you set it up that way, that's proof enough. :)
Everything is coded relative to the image location. The VM path does not mater
at all.
Since the image and media are platform-indepent, /usr/share would be the right
place. Plugins and vm are platform-dependent, so /usr/libexec would be fine.
The squeak vm and plugins are traditionally in /usr/lib but it doesn't really
matter. And it sounds like you want to copy the vm instead of sharing with the
other squeak-based apps?
>
> The scratch script would be updated as follows:
>
> <quote>
> #!/bin/sh
> # Squeakvm wrapper to load Scratch image.
> #------------------------------------------------------------
>
> SCRATCH_PATH="/usr/libexec/scratch"
>
> ${SCRATCH_PATH}/App/scratch_squeak_vm \
> -plugins ${SCRATCH_PATH}/Plugins \
> -vm-sound-ALSA \
> ${SCRATCH_PATH}/Scratch.image "$...@}"
> </quote>
>
> You'll notice I changed to ALSA from pulse (don't have or use pulse). I'm
> trying to figure out a way to test for pulse and use it if it's available,
> just not there yet.
>
> That's great! It's fine to edit the startup script - the only thing we don't
> want to change for different Linux versions is the actual squeak code that
> lives in Scratch.image.
>
> re: pulse plugin -- The ALSA plugin should work just fine on systems without
> pulse, and performance should be the same, so just use it. We had to make (or
> rather, we begged our friend and contributor Derek O'Connell to make for us)
> the pulse plugin because the existence of pulse broke the ALSA plugin on
> Ubuntu systems. So if you don't have pulse, use ALSA.
In case you still need code to detect pulse, there is some near the end of the
etoys wrapper script:
http://etoys.laptop.org/src/etoys.in
- Bert -
>
> I've posted an rpm to
> http://www.brokenlogo.com/downloads/scratch-1.4.0-1.i386.rpm
>
>
> This is great! Thanks for your help!
> Should I post it here for testing...
>
> http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Linux_Installer
>
> ...or do you want to make changes based on above responses first? Either way
> is fine. Also, I'm not as familiar with rpm based distributions these days -
> which ones would you expect this package to be compatible with? Do you happen
> to know if we can test this on the Fedora based OS that runs on OLPC laptops?
>
> Many thanks,
> Amos
>
>
> It builds and installs clean on my machine (a CentOS 5.3). Give it a whirl if
> you can, or let some other folks test it.
>
> With minor tweaks (noted above) to the files in the tar package, the rpm
> builds pretty easily.
>
> Let me know what you think.
> ./ks
>
>
>
_______________________________________________
Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~scratch
Post to : [email protected]
Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~scratch
More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
