[squeak-dev] Squeak All-in-One

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Thu Apr 29 10:27:20 UTC 2010


On 29 April 2010 12:51, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> (resending with proper subject)
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> 29.04.2010, at 01:07, Andreas Raab wrote:
>> On 4/28/2010 3:38 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>> On 29 April 2010 01:05, Ian Trudel<ian.trudel at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> Squeak is a product but it just happen to be free-of-charge. Having
>>>> multiple downloads to get Squeak running and going is a major hurdle
>>>> for newcomers. It will make the curious go away. Curiosity is often
>>>> not strong enough to be persistent and go through the hurdles. Then it
>>>> turns in a no sale.
>>>>
>>>> It may not be the most practical approach but it's a hell of a good
>>>> thing to get newcomers.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Indeed. Easy and fast acquaintance is what a one-click images should serve for.
>>> Everything else is secondary and can be explained/uncovered once you
>>> hooked in the user.
>>
>> Given that everyone seems to agree, can someone take a stab for providing such an installation for 4.1? It'd be easy enough to put up on Squeak.org for first-time users.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>  - Andreas
>
> Agreed. Let's build it. But Amazon marketing be damned, please don't call it "1-click". Makes me cringe every time.
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> Actually ... I just made one. Only tested on Mac and Linux-i686, but chances are it works on Windows, too:
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> http://ftp.squeak.org/Experiments/Squeak-4.1-All-in-One.zip
>
Works on my windoze XP!

> - Bert -
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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.



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