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[Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi! More in a bit. David, my packages-in-progress are at
http://mattdm.org/misc/fedora/

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 03:09:52PM -0400, Amos Blanton wrote:
> Hi Matt,
> 
> Haven't heard much about packaging for Fedora in a while until two separate
> threads started up today! Below is message from David Busby, which has
> links to his work on an rpm. I'll include it in case there's overlap.
> 
> re: mp3 / midi binaries. Thanks, I'll remove those in the next tarball.
> 
> For the debian package, it looks like they just removed mp3 support, which
> is a good short term fix, but it does mean that many of the sound files in
> the sample library cannot be used. It would be great if you could convert
> the sound files to .ogg. If you send me a link, I'll use them in the next
> source package release.
> 
> It's great that there's already a squeak plugin for ogg. Not knowing that
> part of the Scratch Squeak code, I'm not sure how much work it'll take to
> make use of it - hopefully it's quite simple.
> 
> -Amos
> 
> David Wrote --------------------------
> > Hi Both;
> > I've got the rpm build stage working; and am set to pick this up again
> > this week, as the intention is to actually start using it in earnest with
> > some classes we are organizing.
> > Patch and spec files are available here
> > https://github.com/Oneiroi/scratch/ .
> > Plan being to get a successful 1.x build running thrn explore 2.x where
> > applicable.
> > Rpms to be made available on http://oneiroi.fedoraproject.org/ as soon as
> > possible (Exploring Jenkins for CI Builds via github post commit hooks), in
> > the mean time you can grab scratch builds from koji:
> > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4332620 unsure if they
> > are fully functional at this time however.
> > Cheers
> >
> 
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Amos. I'm trying to get the effort to package Scratch for Fedora
> > restarted.
> >
> > As I understand from before, MP3 support was the major stumbling block, but
> > on investigation, this is really a plugin for Squeak, and not actually
> > integral to Scratch itself. (Looks like OLPC ships without it, for
> > example.)
> >
> > In looking at that, I noticed that the 1.4.0.6 source release includes
> > _binaries_ of the MP3 and MIDI plugins. Having MP3 at all is a no-go in
> > Fedora, but having binary code in the source tarball is just messy. Could
> > you make sure to remove these in the next release?
> >
> > It looks like the MIDI plugin is included in the Squeak VM package itself,
> > so I think that's just vestigial.
> >
> > I might encourge the RPM Fusion people to package up the Squeak MP3 plugin
> > for use in jurisdictions where it's allowed. In the meantime, the two
> > options I see are converting all the mp3 audio to ogg (which I can do) or
> > going the OLPC route and just not shipping it. What are your opinions on
> > that? (Ogg also ships with Squeak already.)
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > --
> > Matthew Miller           mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx          <http://mattdm.org/>
> >

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