On Thursday 29 July 2004 4:40 am, mds wrote:
> In addition, VW doesn't have the same sort of closed environment as
> squeak - it's less "weird" to the end user; you simply rename the VM to
> your-app.exe, your image to your-app.img and it's almost transparent
> that this programme is being distributed using a fundamentally
> different sort of technology.
>

Actually, it's hard to see how Squeak is any more "closed" than VW in this 
way.

You can do exactly the same thing with Squeak:

* rename Squeak.exe as your-app.exe
* rename the image to your-app.image
* run your-app.exe (it will automatically load your-app.image)
* turn off the prefs for warning on sources and changes files
* do an abandonSources
* save the image
* throw away the .sources and .changes files

> Lastly, the image stripping facilities are pretty impressive, even
> going as far as replacing walkbacks with dialog errors, thus shielding
> any problems from the user without confusing him terribly. In other
> words, some of the traditional 'evils' of stripping an image are
> lessened, and locked down distribution is improved.

My Lockdown package helps quite a bit with this process, though it doesn't do 
any stripping. However, it needs to be updated for 3.7/3.8. Any volunteers?

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