People have talked about distributing stand-alone Squeak programs, and often the talk turns to self-extracting executables. I don't think that self-extracting executables are the core of the problem. Instead, there is simply a myriad of administrative work that must be done to create a standalone package for multiple platforms.
Anyway, to try and focus the discussion in this direction, I have put a tiny distribution of a Towers of Hanoi solver at:
http://chaos.resnet.gatech.edu:8000/~lex/hanoi/
Linux and Windows people, let me know what you think! I'll try and add more platforms over time. Eventually, most of this could be automated, but it seems useful to have one example of doing it the hard way.
Lex
Please write again and tel us when you've got a Mac version too.
-Charles-A.
Lex Spoon wrote:
People have talked about distributing stand-alone Squeak programs, and often the talk turns to self-extracting executables. I don't think that self-extracting executables are the core of the problem. Instead, there is simply a myriad of administrative work that must be done to create a standalone package for multiple platforms.
Anyway, to try and focus the discussion in this direction, I have put a tiny distribution of a Towers of Hanoi solver at:
http://chaos.resnet.gatech.edu:8000/~lex/hanoi/Linux and Windows people, let me know what you think! I'll try and add more platforms over time. Eventually, most of this could be automated, but it seems useful to have one example of doing it the hard way.
Lex
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Linux and Windows people, let me know what you think! I'll try and add more platforms over time. Eventually, most of this could be automated, but it seems useful to have one example of doing it the hard way.
From the perspective of the application consumer audience I would like to
distribute to:
- the download process was easy and speedy enough - you named the VM as hanoi.exe, it would seem to be consistent to name the image hanoi.image. - a minor nit is that you end up with another file the first time you run the application (squeak.ini). I think this would bug me less if it was called hanoi.ini, and would undoubtedly avoid opening a can of worms...
So, just how hard was this?
-david
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 03:59:16PM -0500, Lex Spoon wrote:
People have talked about distributing stand-alone Squeak programs, and often the talk turns to self-extracting executables. I don't think that self-extracting executables are the core of the problem. Instead, there is simply a myriad of administrative work that must be done to create a standalone package for multiple platforms.
Anyway, to try and focus the discussion in this direction, I have put a tiny distribution of a Towers of Hanoi solver at:
http://chaos.resnet.gatech.edu:8000/~lex/hanoi/
Linux and Windows people, let me know what you think! I'll try and add more platforms over time. Eventually, most of this could be automated, but it seems useful to have one example of doing it the hard way.
I've built a Debian package: ftp://ftp.ira.uka.de/pub/squeak/hanoi
The package contains the following files:
/usr/lib/hanoi/hanoi /usr/lib/hanoi/hanoi.image /usr/lib/menu/hanoi /usr/bin/hanoi /usr/doc/hanoi/README.Debian /usr/doc/hanoi/copyright /usr/doc/hanoi/changelog.gz
The package adds hanoi to the Debian menu-system, it can be started from the normal windowmanager-menu. (Games-->Toys-->Hanoi)
Marcus
PS: It's a good idea to do "trip hanoi", the VM is 303188 bytes after stripping, down from 894212 ...
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