Hallo!
Long time ago you announced the source code for 2007.
Now we have less than 60 days left the celebrate Christmas...
Do you think I can play with the source code under my Christmas tree?
If anybody reading this wants the source ,too , then please ALSO send a request to the scrach guys. ( i.e. replay to this message)
Regards Fritz
Last edited by fritzi (2007-11-06 07:16:26)
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Hi fritzi, If you can't wait for the official release of the source code and are an Über-Smalltalker you can have a sneak preview by just triggering a walkback and then getting into the debugger, like I showed in this project: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Jens/22355
Just be careful not to mess up your working image (in other words, it's best to copy the image and the vm to a 'safe' directory before hacking around).
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Fritz, I don't know when the Scratch Team officially will release the source code. I remember, though, that it was supposed to be released with the next version (which might just be really soon). Anyway, according to an interview John Maloney gave some time ago (http://news.squeak.org/2007/01/23/scratching-the-surface/)
The open-source version of Scratch will be visually different and incompatible with the standard MIT version, to avoid confusion between experimental versions and the standard version.
To me, that reads like you will be able to play with all of Scratch's concepts in Squeak. You'll even be able to build your own version of Scratch, but you will not be getting the original scratch.sources file (which is probably a wise decision, lest incompatible projects created by Scratch clones and variants mess up this website) .
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