Creating deb package of MIT's programming environment for kids (Squeak based)

[Stefan Nuxoll]

On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 19:20 +0100, Caroline Ford wrote:
> 2008/10/12 Andrés Monroy-Hernández <andres.mh at andresmh.com>:
> > Dear edubuntu developers,
> >
> > We are looking for volunteers to help us create a package of the
> > Scratch educational programming environment <http://scratch.mit.edu>
> > for Ubuntu in general and Edubuntu in particular.  The current
> > installers (Win/Mac) come with all the necessary elements needed to
> > run Scratch  (Squeak, some DLLs for Windows) as well as sample
> > projects and an image+sound library. We would like to have the
> > equivalent for Ubuntu.
> >
> 
> I see that it's under Creative Commons BY-SA which is fine.
> 
> Does it need packaging or porting to linux? Does it compile and run
> okay on a linux system?
> 
> We can file a bug saying that it needs packaging but porting is
> considerably harder.
> 
> Caroline
> 
Considering it is using Squeak I would assume it doesn't need any
porting.