Hi Charles:
First, let me say how I impressed with the various developement teams involved (RPi, Squeak, eToys, Scratch). You all are doing amazing work!
I have been googling and am attempting to learn how to boot the Raspberry Pi directly into eToys just like the option for booting directly into Scratch. Surely there is a relatively easy way to do this, but since eToys is not yet deployed on the stock Raspbian image, it does not yet look like it has the official support on the RPi install team. I am very thankful that installing eToys is as easy as "apt-get install etoys" - that is so totally awesome! Now, how to boot directly into eToys?
May be this link help: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=7192 Patricio
As an aside, any idea why eToys is filed under "non-free" extensions for RPi?
-- Charles Schultz
Pato,
That looks like a viable hack. :) It is my understanding that RPi can boot into a special, slimmed-down VM version just for Scratch. Is that not the case? For instance, when in Scratch, I cannot simply exit Scratch and go back to the desktop - quitting scratch issues a shutdown. Can I do the same for eToys? Part of it is that I do not fully understand how "boot to Scratch" works, so I would like to learn that if I can.
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Pato Acevedo patitoacevedo@hotmail.comwrote:
Hi Charles:
First, let me say how I impressed with the various developement teams involved (RPi, Squeak, eToys, Scratch). You all are doing amazing work!
I have been googling and am attempting to learn how to boot the Raspberry Pi directly into eToys just like the option for booting directly into Scratch. Surely there is a relatively easy way to do this, but since
eToys
is not yet deployed on the stock Raspbian image, it does not yet look
like
it has the official support on the RPi install team. I am very thankful that installing eToys is as easy as "apt-get install etoys" - that is so totally awesome! Now, how to boot directly into eToys?
May be this link help:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=7192
Patricio
As an aside, any idea why eToys is filed under "non-free" extensions for RPi?
-- Charles Schultz
On 18.11.2013, at 13:08, Charles Schultz sacrophyte@gmail.com wrote:
Pato,
That looks like a viable hack. :) It is my understanding that RPi can boot into a special, slimmed-down VM version just for Scratch. Is that not the case? For instance, when in Scratch, I cannot simply exit Scratch and go back to the desktop - quitting scratch issues a shutdown. Can I do the same for eToys? Part of it is that I do not fully understand how "boot to Scratch" works, so I would like to learn that if I can.
You should probably ask this on the Squeak developers list, as there are many more developers subscribed to that than here:
http://lists.squeak.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/squeak-dev
As an aside, any idea why eToys is filed under "non-free" extensions for RPi?
Because the Debian gate-keepers do not like the image-based nature of Smalltalk development; it impedes their usual text-based workflow.
See /usr/share/doc/etoys/README.non-free
- Bert -
etoys-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org
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Bert Freudenberg -
Charles Schultz -
Pato Acevedo