On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 07:00:40PM +0200, Geza Lakner MD wrote:
wxSqueak is a heroic effort (kudos Rob Gayvert !!!) but it has inherent weaknesses in the deployment area: Squeak has by-nature a HUGE footprint base system (by 'base' I do not mean barely usable ;-) which could be done by shrinking the image into only 3-4 MBs), wx libraries may add a factor of two to overall package size, not to count the mixed licensing situation.
While I initially agree with the rest of the comments, I'd like to point out that this "weakness" you point out is shared by other mainstream crap. I have here a commercial java network oriented server which has a RSS of 38M just after starting, while the squeak image I'm developing on (ie, no shrinking at all) is 28M.
Bad for small apps, but still "competitive" for larger ones ;)