[Sugar-devel] Sugar and Scratch 3.0 online

[James Cameron]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 09:44:11AM +0100, Samson Goddy wrote:
> Thanks, James for the update. I am not sure how I missed this mail.
> 
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 2:24 AM James Cameron <[1]quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> 
>     Scratch 3.0 was released [1].
> 
>     It works fine online using Sugar 0.112 and Browse 202, on Fedora 29
>     and Ubuntu 18.04, on virtual machines and hardware.
> 
> Scratch works well for Sugar and Browse but without no support for sound and
> audio recording.  

No, sound works fine, and recording is only stopped by permissions.
https://github.com/sugarlabs/browse-activity/issues/85

Please test again to confirm sound works for playback.  That's a good
enough state of affairs to release.  The Scratch in Sugarizer does that.

>     Blocks can be assembled into programs which then run.  Animation
>     and sound also works.
> 
>     While on screen but not being used, the editor has an event loop which
>     consumes CPU cycles.  Faster CPUs consume less power.  An OLPC NL3
>     with quad-core N2940 CPU at 1.83 GHz is 65% busy.
> 
>     The editor does need memory; a virtual machine with 1 GB of RAM causes
>     WebKit log reports due to memory pressure, but with 2 GB of RAM there
>     are no such reports.
> 
>     Scratch 3.0 is not available for offline use on Linux yet [2].
> 
>     On the OLPC XO-4, Scratch 3.0 does not start, as it requires features
>     that are not available in the older WebKit browser.  I don't expect
>     this to change.
> 
>     References:
> 
>     1.  [2]https://scratch.mit.edu/
>     2.  [3]https://scratch.mit.edu/download
> 
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> [3] https://scratch.mit.edu/download
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