Deploying "shrink-wrapped" Squeak Apps?

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Fri May 29 17:13:54 UTC 1998


Paul Fernhout writes:
 > What's the current thinking on deploying "shrink-wrapped" Squeak apps? 
 > 
 > Does anyone think it is doable at this point (in terms of stability)?
 > Are any VMs in good enough shape to let non-programmer end customers use
 > (especially without extensive further in-house testing on the relevant
 > hardware)? 
 > 
 > If Morphic is used in an app, how does one prevent end users from
 > rearranging/deleting the GUI by accident? 


Such a capability can be a *good* thing.  If you build an application
from smaller widgits, each of which are complete and *can* be
meaningfully rearranged, I think you will have built a tool that is
much more widely useful.


Lex





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