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[Amos Blanton <amos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings Derek -

Hope you are doing well!
We're making some updates for the Scratch for Linux package.
We'd like to start depending on the Squeak-vm that is now available in the
Ubuntu Natty repositories:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/ca/natty/squeak-vm

<http://packages.ubuntu.com/ca/natty/squeak-vm>But in our initial test, the
pulse audio plugin that ships with it does not work with Scratch.  You sent
us a binary that does seem to work quite well, and also some source. We're
not certain if the last source you checked in to our repository, here:

http://my-trac.assembla.com/scratchonlinux/browser/trunk/scratch/src/plugins/vm-sound-pulse

<http://my-trac.assembla.com/scratchonlinux/browser/trunk/scratch/src/plugins/vm-sound-pulse>...was
the source that was used to build the working binary that currently ships
with the Scratch package:

http://my-trac.assembla.com/scratchonlinux/log/trunk/scratch/Plugins/vm-sound-pulse

(We just ship the binary -- our packaging process doesn't compile the source
for the pulse-plugin even though we have source.)

Can you confirm that the binary you sent us was made from this source? Or
can you send us a copy of the final working code? Sayamindu Dasgupta, who
joined our research group last year, will look into this to see about
submitting a patch to the VM for the pulse plugin.  And in the meantime,
we'll try to figure out some way of getting Squeak to use our working plugin
instead of the broken one that the Squeak-VM ships with (any ideas?)

Thanks!
Amos