Bug#471927: Packaging attempt
Hi,
last year I made an attempt to package it. It looks like licensing is a
non-issue as long as it is redistributable (which it is). The key point
is that ftp-masters consider the whole culture of squeak VMs as non-free
anyway. Maybe they are are not aware of the point that the VM image is the
preferred form of modification. Take a look at the etoys package for the
story.
I git cloned their SVN and started stripping, unnecessary binary stuff
and evaluating whether it would work with Debian's squeak-vm. It looks
like it does.
Anyway, I got distracted repeatedly and never produced a respectable
packaging. Once I have that I'll publish the git repo. However, this
should not stop others from oding everything much quicker and better
than I could ;-)
Some open questions/tasks:
* Does it really need pulseaudio? Or: how can it be made easily
configurable to use any of the supported audio backends?
* Ask for the sources of the binary plugins that are contained in SVN
and shipped with scratch.
* Camera plugin got removed -- is there a replacement? Is it necessary?
Michael
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Michael Hanke
http://mih.voxindeserto.de
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