Bizarre Browser Behavior

Karl Ramberg karl.ramberg at chello.se
Tue Jan 11 21:47:42 UTC 2000



Lex Spoon wrote:

> >
> > => 1/11/00 10:39:40 AM, lex at cc.gatech.edu =>
> > << So how about having the image startup code automatically decompress its
> > changes file, if needed?  Then people could distributeSqueak2.6.changes.gz
> > instead of Squeak2.6.changes, and we could get past this annoying attempt at
> > do-what-you-think-i-mean. >> ... and following ....
> >
> > How about .jar files? Or are things from Java world improperly brewed?
> >
>
> How many people have a jar program around, as compared to a ZIP program?
>
> Anyway, it wouldn't really change anything, I don't think.  The most
> difficult problem, I'm guessing, would be packaging up n separate
> *executables* along with the image and changes files.  jar might be
> the right way to make the packages for certain platforms, but you still
> have the "complexity" of dealing with each platform individually.
>
> Although, the more I think about it, the less hard it seems.  Maybe
> someone should just *try* it for once, and report about how it goes.
> Just how hard *is* it to set up a distribution for a Squeak
> program for separate OS's?  And what specifically is problematic?
>
> Lex

When you zip compress files you loose the type and creator info on macintosh
files.
Therefore when you double-click a zip decompressed image will not open the VM
automatically.
That is why it's best to some compression that recognize mac resource info like
sea does.
Karl





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