On Tuesday 19 January 2010 11:12:09 pm Andreas Raab wrote:
Some comments on the setup:
- The VM itself is a shared library (libsqueakvm.so) the "app" is a
wrapper written in Java.
Way to go! I feel as a library squeakvm is more portable to emerging platforms than as a standalone command line or X11 app. As a library, squeakvm can be easily integrated into desktop systems based on GTK+, Qt etc.
Some comments on the implementation:
- The image is broken into pieces since Android's AssetManager doesn't
like assets larger than 1MB.
Another excellent idea that I would like to see merged into squeakvm trunk.
Perhaps a slight modification - instead of squeak.image.<n>, pick segments from a directory say, squeak.imd/<n>. This would allow large images to be carried around on (or transferred through) a traditional filesystems with 8.3 or per- file size limits.
Subbu