Hi, 
  One of my thoughts (for the mac) is that one would distribute an app
which had the VM, all the needed plugins, and the image, all bound in 
one file.  The image would be stored in the resource fork of the app.
Alas, I've never played enough to impliment this..

cheers

bruce

"Lex Spoon" <lex at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> Are type's limitted to 4 characters?  If so, then this solution wouldn't
> scale very well....
> 
> On the other hand, VM's will load an image named "squeak.image" by
> default.  Would there be any trouble by just having them click on a file
> that happens to be a *VM* instead of an image?  For intance, will that
> VM start trying to be the one that interprets *other* images on the
> system?  If so, perhaps we could allocate a single new type, which all
> distributions would use?
> 
> Lex
> 
> 
> Bruce ONeel <beoneel at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >   Yes, for the mac, a unique type would do it.  I was just lazy...
> > 
> > cheers
> > 
> > bruce
> > 
> > Karl Ramberg <karl.ramberg at chello.se> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Bruce ONeel wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > lex at cc.gatech.edu (Lex Spoon) wrote:
> > > > <snip>
> > > > > As for packaging, there are two FAQ's on the Swiki about "executables",
> > > > > and there is a project regarding self-extracting executables.  But
> > > > > so far, I don't know if anyone has *tried* to actually package and
> > > > > distribute something based on Squeak....
> > > >
> > > >   It's not the cleanest in the world, but I've been sucessful distributing
> > > > applications to non squeak users just by giving them a mac .sit file, telling
> > > > them to unstuff it and then double clicking on what was in fact a
> > > > smalltalk image.  Of course there would be more than a few problems
> > > > if the already had Squeak installed...
> > > 
> > > Couldn't this be fixed on a mac by giving the VM and the image a unique
> > > filetype and creator? Just like one could give Windows a unique suffix
> > > and compile a VM that only response to that.
> > > Or give the VM instructions to only respond to certain image names.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > cheers
> > > >
> > > > bruce
> > > 
> > > Karl