Base image, - about Cheese porting

David Pennell pennell at tiac.net
Thu Sep 3 13:28:19 UTC 1998


Boris -

There has been discussion on the list about native widgets contributing to
substantial image bloat.  What kind of results have you had with Cheese in
terms of image size and speed.

-david
-----Original Message-----
From: Boris G. Chr. Shingarov <usib6tfj at pol.ru>
To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu <squeak at cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Thursday, September 03, 1998 2:01 AM
Subject: Base image, - about Cheese porting


>Doug Way wrote:
>
>> I didn't realize that Cheese was something that might be ported to other
>> OSes... sounds great!  I had assumed it was OS/2-specific.
>
>Cheese was designed with portability in mind.  We're talking
>with several guys about such porting (e.g. to Win32 - with
>Joerg Brunsmann), but the current status of Cheese is such
>that it's hard to collaborate on this right now, and I'm
>pushing it as best as I can towards being accessible by
>folks on other platforms.  I think the way how that can
>be done would be to return to a Cheese4-like image having
>'dual interface' (i.e. with both BitBlt and native windowing).
>We'll see where this leads :-)
>
>Boris
>
>





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