Scratch activity problems

[John Watlington]

On Aug 26, 2008, at 2:27 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Scott requested I pass on some information about 2 issues with the
> Scratch activity:
>
> 1. Version numbering:
> The version number in the activity bundle is wrong (it reads  
> version 2,
> but the bundle is Scratch-5.xo). This confuses the activity updater,
> which thinks you have version 2 installed, thinks version 5 is
> available, and hence always tries to get you to upgrade.
>
> 2. Saving of files:
> Scratch does not use the Journal, it uses the regular filesystem.
> Rainbow prevents Scratch from saving in usual locations. So, Scratch
> ships with a world-writable "Projects" directory underneath the  
> activity
> directory, but this does not work when the activity is installed  
> from a
> customization key. (the directory is not writable in this case)

Since Scratch is always installed from a customization key, starting  
with
build 703, does this mean that Scratch is no longer a supported  
activity ?

> John Maloney (scratch developer) is aware of both issues. He is
> considering making Scratch use the journal in future, but this is a
> large amount of work.
>
> Daniel
>
>
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