I've just been corrected on this by a ubuntu dev, who states for it to get into universe, it must have source code available. That means that for now, squeak must stay in Multiverse.... the only option seems to seperate squeak from sugar, if sugar is to get into main or universe.
David Van Assche On 11/7/08, David Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the fact no source code is available might cause a problem for > it getting into Main... thats not necessarily such a bad thing though. > Edubuntu addon packages will definitely go to universe, its just a > question of when. The only difference is, no direct downstream > support. But as I understand it this support will come from mostly > upstream anyway, and there are a couple of ubuntu devs on upstream > anyway. > > Or am I missing something, is there some reason we absolutely must > have Canonical support for squeak? > > David > > > On 11/7/08, Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > additionaly to what Bert said: > > > > to summarize _my understanding_ again: there is source, there is just no > ascii > > representation of the source / you cannot compile the source to binaries. > > Because the source comes as blobs (being the VM in it's state), which can > be > > edited inside the virtual machine it represents. > > > > In theory squeak can be bootstrapped, in practice not. > > > > (Hence, there is a chicken and egg problem. (For non squeak developers. > Squeak > > developers are used to this and happy about it.)) > > > > > > regards, > > > > Holger > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
