[squeak-dev] All-In-One distribution (was: Changing the Trunk version from 6.0alpha to 5.2alpha)

H. Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Wed May 30 13:30:12 UTC 2018


>Chris Muller
> Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 3:14 AM

>  AIO provides a compact example file of everything needed to deploy an application on each of the top platforms.  For no more than its instructional value, it is something worth keeping, IMO.


The AIO _is_ the application. Good to run off a pen drive as well in a
platform independent way.

It does not need to be built regularily.
Just for the release is fine.

On 5/30/18, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 07:22:28AM +0200, Tobias Pape wrote:
>>
>> > On 30.05.2018, at 01:40, Edgar De Cleene <edgardec2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 29 May 2018, at 15:42, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Making it easier to find and download new VM builds should be a
>> >> priority.
>> >> It's quite hard to find a recent VM following links from squeak.org
>> >>
>> > This scared beginners
>> > All in one should have the most stable and recent
>>
>> Let's face it: the All-in-ones are dead.
>> Apple makes it harder than ever and for linux we should have start
>> building platform packages long ago.
>>
>
> This topic deserves a new subject line, and it would be great to get some
> more input regarding who prefers using the All-In-One distribution for
> regular use, versus other approaches for organizing their image and VM.
>
> My personal view is that the All-In-One is a valuable enhancement to
> the basic image and VM downloads. I do not think that it is practical
> to maintain it as the primary release artifact, but I do think that we
> should provide it, as best we can, in addition to the primary image and
> VM release downloads.
>
> Dave
>
>
>


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