In case that wasn't clear: I ran Scratch *on Linux*.

- Bert -

On Jan 16, 2007, at 18:19 , Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> I'm pretty sure if you find a 2.8 VM the basic stuff would pretty  
> much work. I just tested with a recent VM and get walkbacks because  
> we switched to named primitives a long while ago. Commenting out  
> the primitive failures worked fine (it was just trying to stop  
> sound which was not playing anyway). After this, I could work with  
> it just fine.
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> Regarding "Smalltalk and portability" ... It takes a *lot* of low  
> level effort to provide the illusion of a perfect world so that on  
> a high level you can ignore platform issues. This has not been done  
> on Linux yet as it seems, so that's why they estimate it might take  
> a while to get done. All of this convenience does not come for  
> free. Actually, if it *was* Smalltalk rather than C and OS- 
> dependent libraries down there, we would be in even better shape.
>
> - Bert -
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> On Jan 16, 2007, at 17:53 , Philippe Marschall wrote:
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>> Yeah, that's what stopped me from downloading it. So much for
>> Smalltalk and portability. Way better than say Java.
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>> Philippe
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>> 2007/1/16, Klaus D. Witzel <klaus.witzel at cobss.com>:
>>> And they say: "Note: We are working on a Linux version, and hope  
>>> to have
>>> it ready by the end of 2007." :)
>>>
>>> /Klaus
>>>
>>> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:36:42 +0100, Jerome Peace wrote:
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>>> > Mit's scratch has a final version available for
>>> > download.
>>> >
>>> > http://scratch.mit.edu/
>>> >
>>> > It seems to have come out January 8th.
>>> >
>>> > I know there are a few here who have been interested
>>> > in what they have done.
>>> >
>>> > Scratch was inspired by squeaks etoys.
>>> >
>>> > Now that it is final and not beta the registration
>>> > page is optional.
>>> >
>>> > They also seem to be planing a sharing website to be
>>> > up in February.
>>> >
>>> > Yours in service, --Jerome Peace
>>>
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