[Squeakland] distributing squeak on a network
Bert Freudenberg
bert at freudenbergs.de
Tue Dec 11 23:23:25 PST 2007
On Dec 10, 2007, at 13:35 , Bill Kerr 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 out.
> http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2007/07/image-file-virtual-machine-
> bytecodes.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.
Well, as long as you do not need students to be able to save their
own images, a single copy on the server should work quite well. You
just need to fiddle with the squeak.ini file so everyone gets their
own UserDirectory for storing projects and SecureDirectory for the
project signing keys:
http://www.squeakvm.org/win32/settings.html
And as Karl wrote, Stef prepared a version of BotsInc that works on
the OLPC etoys image, so you would only need one image, changes, and
sources file.
- Bert -
> 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 anyway
>
> 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 210
> 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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