[squeak-dev] What is an 'embedded' image?

gettimothy gettimothy at zoho.com
Fri Oct 25 17:32:26 UTC 2013


Would this be a promising starting point for de-coupling squeak from its current UI and building an X-Windows interface to it?

---- On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:29:42 -0700 tim Rowledge<tim at rowledge.org> wrote ---- 


I vaguely recall discussions about this sort of thing; a way to bundle an image with a vm in the days before Apple finally copied the RISC OS application structure. Back then - and maybe still now, I wouldn’t know - Windows was able to bind assorted resources into the same file as an executable. At one point in ancient history VisualWorks could do that as a distribution mechanism. 
 
For RISC OS you just need to save a normal file inside the !appdir, for OS X I’m guessing you can save a normal file inside the bundle, for Windows… no idea, for *nix there are probably 700 different ways with 7000 opinions published as to why each one is stupid, or brilliant. 
 
tim 
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