On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 at 16:34, Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at> wrote: > > Hey Nick, > > Thanks for maintaining mu-editor, my kids are just getting started with it. > So > I might be interested in taking it over. Are the updates a lot of work? I > see > the tarball is tagged with dfsg so there's that...
Dear Hans-Christoph, Thank you for your interest. It's great to hear that you're starting to use mu-editor with your kids - it's why I packaged it in the first place. Updating mu-editor, and firmware-microbit-micropython, can be challenging at times and other times straightforward, depending on the changes upstream have made. The initial packaging of the whole "stack" took a long time, as upstream deliver mu-editor, uflash and the micropython binary (one of the reasons why it's +dfsg) all together in the same project. I think it required 14 separate source packages to be built to finally get mu-editor and micropython for the micro:bit into Debian. Keith Packard (CC'd) is interested in contributing and co-maintaining mu-editor, and there is a current MR in the repo. The mu-editor repository has also just had a drive-by upstream bump to version 1.2.0 but nothing else so far... Thanks, Nick
