Added: trunk/VM/to-go/README.txt =================================================================== --- trunk/VM/to-go/README.txt 2010-09-29 20:57:21 UTC (rev 605) +++ trunk/VM/to-go/README.txt 2010-10-01 13:41:14 UTC (rev 606) @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +HOW TO RUN ETOYS-TO-GO + +Macintosh: double-click "Etoys To Go" + +Linux: double-click etoys.sh + +Windows: double-click Etoys.exe + + +USING ETOYS-TO-GO + +The main purpose of Etoys-To-Go is for putting it on a USB thumb drive. It +does not require to install anything on a machine's hard disk. All the files +are in one directory, including the Etoys projects you save. That makes it +easy to take transport projects e.g. between home and school. + +You can also drag Etoys-To-Go.app to your desktop and use it from there. +This is useful if for example your institution's policy does not allow to +install applications. If you can, it still is better to use the installer +version because that will also install the Web Browser Plugin so you can +see Etoys projects on the web without having to download them. + + +TRIVIA + +The directory structure for packaging Squeak applications for multiple +platforms (such as Etoys-To-Go) was developed in 2006 by Bert Freudenberg +while working on impara's "Plopp" drawing tool for kids. It won the 2006 +ESUG Smalltalk Technology Innovation Award. The trick is in (ab)-using +the Macintosh bundle structure to by adding Virtual Machines for other +platforms like Windows and Linux. The image and other files are shared +between all platforms. Added: trunk/installers/unix/README =================================================================== --- trunk/installers/unix/README 2010-09-29 20:57:21 UTC (rev 605) +++ trunk/installers/unix/README 2010-10-01 13:41:14 UTC (rev 606) @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The installers/unix directory is currently unused. + +Etoys is packaged by Linux distributions using the sources +hosted at Sugar Labs: + +http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/etoys/