[squeak-dev] Cog binary + cogdeb.zip = Cog.deb

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Wed Jun 18 17:00:03 UTC 2014


On 18-06-2014, at 1:57 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
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> (*) which is a major reason why we're having a hard time to get Squeak images into distros (as opposed to Squeak VMs). The image looks like a big binary blob to the average distro maintainer, and they want the real source instead.

And of course they never include large binary lumps; no images, no sound files, no sirree we don’t do that. I sometimes have to wonder about these people.

Perhaps we should change to an image format that is an image? Make a jpeg or whatever and use the EXIF area for our data and put a screen snapshot as the picture?

tim
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