Matthew Miller wrote:
Several years ago, I packaged up Scratch 1.4 -- the visual
programming
language for kids. However, it never really worked perfectly (it's not
64 bit clean) and upstream for this line is dead (as Scratch 2.0 is
based on Adobe Air -- and hopefully _soon_ HTML5).
I'd like to let go of ownership of the package, and unless someone else
really wants to invest time into it, I think retiring it completely is
the way to go.
I don't think working software (even if not perfect, but what software is?)
should be dropped from the distribution like that, ESPECIALLY for software
like this that involves user data (programs in this case). You should at
least follow the normal orphaning process and give others a chance to pick
up the package.
I would also like to point out that as long as Scratch 2.0 depends on Adobe
Air, it is a no-go in a Free Software universe, and as such 1.4 is the
latest usable version.
Kevin Kofler