[Etoys] Squeak and EToys packages for Fedora and OLPC

[Bert Freudenberg]

Hi Gavin,

> (If this message is inappropriate for this list - I apologies, and
> please let me know this.)

It's not inappropriate, but most list members have no experience with  
packaging software for a Linux distribution, or even know about how  
software is normally maintained in the open-source community, what  
separates an author from a maintainer etc. Do you have a pointer to a  
short introduction into this? Until now, we (the authors) did all the  
end-user releases for various platforms on our own, so this is new  
land for most of us.

Thank you for taking this on!

- Bert -

> My name is Gavin Romig-Koch, I've been working on creating Squeak and
> EToys RPMs that are (hopefully will be) usable and acceptable to both
> the Fedora and OLPC distributions.   I have posted my first draft of
> these packages and would appreciate a review by anyone who is  
> interested
> in such things.
>
>   http://code.google.com/p/squeak-fedora/
>
> This consists of .spec files, .patch files, and a Makefile to download
> upstream "sources" and build packages from them.   There is also a  
> TODO
> file listing the things I think/know need to work on before these are
> ready for Fedora or OLPC.
>
> If you find issues contact me.
>
> -gavin...