Hi all,
I'm just now getting into squeak and finding it a delightful
programming environment. I am, however, curious as to why some
features don't seem readily available. First and foremost, why
isn't there a stripped down version of the VM that runs Squeak
programs and nothing else? That is, why isn't it possible to
distribute Squeak program to users in the way Java developers
distribute Java programs?
To put this another way, let's say I'm a Squeak developer and
I want to distribute my program to a community of people that
does X. Under the current paradigm, all the people that do X
also have to be Squeak savvy people if they are going to make
use of my program. They have to be savvy enough to know what it
is, install it, run it, install my program, and run my program.
Moreover, they have to know enough about the Squeak interface to
know what to do if they accidentally close my program window.
Conversely, with Java, the user doesn't have to know anything
about Java beyond downloading JVM. In this way, I can distribute
my program to everyone that does X without having to worry about
whether or not they also know anything about Squeak.
So why isn't something like this available?
David Holiday
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San Diego State University
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