[squeak-dev] All-in-one release (was: One-click images)

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Tue Mar 19 18:34:18 UTC 2013


On 2013-03-19, at 18:58, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:

> It appears one-click images are a barrier to entry, if you look at the
> Hacker News comments around Pharo 2.0's release announcement.
> 
> (Mental note to add this as a Release Manager item.)


You mean
	https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5393553

That comment was more about it not working on 64 bit Linux, no?

But I agree in general, that one-size-fits-all is not ideal. At least it should be cleaned up - seeing all the Windows VM files in the unzipped directory is ugly, having all the Mac plugins in the image directory is ugly, having deep nesting in the Linux VM is ugly, and not being able to see the image because it is hidden on the Mac is ugly, too.

The all-in-one directory structure was meant for apps, not for the development environment. And "one-click image" is particularly misleading. Thread subject changed ;)

Now with the build server it should be easy to build platform-specific zip files, no? We just need an idea how the result *should* look like for each platform. 

- Bert -



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