A report on testing etoys 4.0 (obtained etoys-4.0.2201.tar.gz from bert freudenberg email tuesday)
In brief - it works same as previous version in 2 hours of playing, making scripts etc.
I could not test on OLPC because my olpc has "stuck alt key" .. so tested on On Suse Linux 11.1.
1. tried to install etoys-4.0.2201-1.noarch.rpm - this did not work, complained about dependency on VM (squeak?) > 3.10
2. So, I Installed Squeak from tar:
- downloaded "Linux" VM tar from http://squeak.org/Download/ (file=http://ftp.squeak.org/3.10/unix-linux/Squeak-3.10-1.i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz)
- installeD above squeak:
- cd /home/mzimmermann/orig-files/Squeak-3.10-1
- /bin/sh INSTALL
- this did put squeak in this did put squeak to /usr/local/bin/squeak
3. Installed etoys 4.0 from tar: (maybe I should try the rpm at this point?)
- obtained etoys-4.0.2201.tar.gz from bert freudenberg email tuesday December 16, 2008
- untared to /home/mzimmermann/orig-files/
- untar created directory etoys-4.0.2201
- cd /home/mzimmermann/orig-files/etoys-4.0.2201
- ./configure
- make
- make check
- make install
- this did put etoys to /usr/local/bin/etoys (binary)
and /usr/local/share/etoys (content)
4. edited /usr/local/lib/squeak/npsqueakregister
- so this line looks like:
BROWSERS="netscape mozilla mozilla-firefox opera MozillaFirefox/lib firefox"
(this would be a good idea to add to the distro! firefox is 20% of market share)
and:
# vvvvvv copy etoys image to become the plugin image
cp /usr/local/share/etoys/etoys.image /usr/local/lib/squeak/SqueakPlugin.image
cp /usr/local/share/etoys/etoys.changes /usr/local/lib/squeak/SqueakPlugin.changes
# ^^^^^^
5. Installed squeak/etoys HTTP plugin:
5.2 Ran program to register squeak plugin
cd /usr/local/lib/squeak/
./npsquekregister
6. Tested by running etoys /usr/local/bin/etoys
- works great, i saw no differences from the previous version in 2 hours of playing
- plugin also works in Mozilla 3.0.5 and Konqueror
Nice - free version of Etoys :)
Milan
On Tuesday 16 December 2008, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> (resent with new download URLs and a bit more prose)
>
> Hi folks,
>
> this is the first release of Etoys 4.0. The major version jump
> signifies the end of our two-year relicensing effort.
>
> Originally released in 1996, Apple relicensed the Squeak core under
> the Apache 2.0 license in October 2006 - thanks to Steve, Alan, and
> the lawyers involved. Then, Viewpoints Research collected written
> relicensing agreements from several hundred later contributors under
> the MIT license - thanks to Kim, and the Squeak community volunteers.
> Finally, all the code in Etoys not explicitly covered by a relicensing
> agreement was removed, or rewritten, or reverted to an earlier version
> - kudos to Yoshiki for the bulk of that work.
>
> Looking forward to see Etoys properly packaged in more distros now :)
>
> We may have broken stuff while removing and rewriting, so please
> report any oddities you notice.
>
> Note: Etoys comes in two parts, one is the base (in Sugar Glucose, but
> will actually run on all platforms given a recent Squeak virtual
> machine) and one the activity bundle (in Fructose). Following the
> naming conventions the lower-case "etoys" package is the base while
> the activity is capitalized as "Etoys".
>
> == Sources ==
>
> http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/etoys/etoys-4.0.2201.
>tar.gz
>
> http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Etoys/Etoys-97.tar.g
>z
>
> == Packaged ==
>
> http://etoys.laptop.org/rpms/etoys-4.0.2201-1.noarch.rpm
>
> http://etoys.laptop.org/rpms/Etoys-97.xo
>
> == News ==
>
> * removed/reverted/rewrote all methods not covered by Apache/MIT license
> * various fixes (#8928, #8929, #8879, #9058, and others)
>
> - Bert (for the Etoys team) -
>
>
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