[Squeakland] distributing squeak on a network

[Eric Eisaman]

Good Day Bill,

I use Squeak routinely in my high school physics classes and haven't had any
problems with the kids simply running from the same shared folder on a
common drive of our school LAN. Of course I haven't had them use bots inc.
so I can't comment on that however, I have had them refer to your Etoys Pong
tutorial as a guide in constructing their own version.

I'm only half way through the *Squeak by Example* book by A.P. Black, S.
Ducasse, O. Nierstrasz, and D. Pollet with D. Cassou and M. Denker; yet I
have gained enough confidence to plan a few lessons for all my students to
program from the system browser and debugger and save their programs as
Monticello packages. Perhaps when I implement these lessons I will incur
technical difficulties due to conflicting change sets or something however,
I plan to instruct the students not to save their images but simply to save
their work as Monticello packages in the package cache and online at
SqueakSource.

Regards,
Eric Eisaman

On Dec 10, 2007 5:50 PM, Bill Kerr <billkerr at gmail.com> wrote:

> What is a good way to distribute squeak on a network (Windows network at
> my school) ?
>
> From my understanding there is no option but to give each student their
> own personal image file but the sources and changes files could be left o=
ut.
>
>
> http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2007/07/image-file-virtual-machine-bytecode=
s.html
>
> If I was going to give students both Bots and Squeak then this would
> result in quite large student folders, the image files range b/w 15 and 20
> MB. But I don't see any alternative.
>
> With Bots I get prompts about missing sources and changes files if I try
> to launch it outside of its folder, but it then goes ahead and loads anyw=
ay
>
> I'll attach some file folders so people can refer to them in an answer, if
> necessary:
>
> BOTS (file sizes in KB unless otherwise specified)
>
> .DS_Store            7
> Bots.exe            1053
> Bots.ini            1
> luth.frm            13
> Ready.changes        16747
> Ready.image            14841
> spider.frm            18
> Squeak.ini            1
> SqueakV3.sources    14202
>
>
> ETOYS IMAGE AND PR
>
> etoys.image            19609
> DemonCastle1.pr        582
> Launcher.pr <http://launcher.pr/>            210
> Welcome.pr <http://welcome.pr/>            385
> ExampleEtoys (folder)    6.44 MB
>
>
> SQUEAK 3.8
>
> Squeak.exe                    1053
> Squeak3.8-6665full.image    17969
> Squeak3.8-6665full.changes    13878
> SqueakV3.sources            14202
> Squeak.ini                    1
> SqueakFFIPrims.dll            30
> windows folder
>  SqueakPluginInstaller.exe    6325
>
>
> cheers,
> - Bill
> --
> Bill Kerr
> http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/
>
>
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