[squeak-dev] Re: Ubuntu package maintainers help

Matej Kosik kosik at fiit.stuba.sk
Mon Apr 20 06:39:02 UTC 2009


Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> 
> On 19.04.2009, at 23:57, Matej Kosik wrote:
> 
>> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>>
>>> On 19.04.2009, at 22:20, Matej Kosik wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Are there any versions of Squeak images that could be imported to
>>>> Debian
>>>> repositories? (some minimal images with sorted out licencing issues).
>>>
>>>
>>> Not exactly minimal, but license-clean:
>>>
>>> http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/etoys/
>>
>> I have looked at it (btw. Jose already created and registered
>> appropriate package---cool). Is it possible to somehow open a browser,
>> workspace and such? (in that image)?
> 
> It's not really meant for Smalltalk development, but you can press
> alt-shift-w to get the full world menu.

The two images:
- etoys
- etoys-dev
would fit to the Lex's scheme
http://ftp.squeak.org/debian/squeak-on-debian.pdf
I think, that whatever Jose wanted to achieve with his separate
squeak-vm package can be achieved also with our squeak-vm package (now
they are different).

What would be the advantage?
- We could keep our rich repository:
  http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3616
  That contains also "licence unclean" packages.
- Some of those packages could be posted to Debian
  - etoys
  - etoys-dev
  Really, people could then:

	apt-get install etoys

  and run it as:

	etoys

- We would not have to maintain two (three, four, ...)
  separate squeak-vm package versions.

How does this sound to Lex and especially to Jose?



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