Hi! More in a bit. David, my packages-in-progress are at http://mattdm.org/misc/fedora/
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 03:09:52PM -0400, Amos Blanton wrote: > 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 tarball. > > For the debian package, it looks like they just removed mp3 support, which > is a good short term fix, but it does mean that many of the sound files in > the sample library cannot be used. It would be great if you could convert > the sound files to .ogg. If you send me a link, I'll use them in the next > source package release. > > It's great that there's already a squeak plugin for ogg. Not knowing that > part of the Scratch Squeak code, I'm not sure how much work it'll take to > make use of it - hopefully it's quite simple. > > -Amos > > David Wrote -------------------------- > > Hi Both; > > I've got the rpm build stage working; and am set to pick this up again > > this week, as the intention is to actually start using it in earnest with > > some classes we are organizing. > > Patch and spec files are available here > > https://github.com/Oneiroi/scratch/ . > > Plan being to get a successful 1.x build running thrn explore 2.x where > > applicable. > > Rpms to be made available on http://oneiroi.fedoraproject.org/ as soon as > > possible (Exploring Jenkins for CI Builds via github post commit hooks), in > > the mean time you can grab scratch builds from koji: > > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4332620 unsure if they > > are fully functional at this time however. > > Cheers > > > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Matthew Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Amos. I'm trying to get the effort to package Scratch for Fedora > > restarted. > > > > As I understand from before, MP3 support was the major stumbling block, but > > on investigation, this is really a plugin for Squeak, and not actually > > integral to Scratch itself. (Looks like OLPC ships without it, for > > example.) > > > > In looking at that, I noticed that the 1.4.0.6 source release includes > > _binaries_ of the MP3 and MIDI plugins. Having MP3 at all is a no-go in > > Fedora, but having binary code in the source tarball is just messy. Could > > you make sure to remove these in the next release? > > > > It looks like the MIDI plugin is included in the Squeak VM package itself, > > so I think that's just vestigial. > > > > I might encourge the RPM Fusion people to package up the Squeak MP3 plugin > > for use in jurisdictions where it's allowed. In the meantime, the two > > options I see are converting all the mp3 audio to ogg (which I can do) or > > going the OLPC route and just not shipping it. What are your opinions on > > that? (Ogg also ships with Squeak already.) > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- > > Matthew Miller [email protected] <http://mattdm.org/> > > -- Matthew Miller [email protected] <http://mattdm.org/> _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~scratch Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~scratch More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
