How About an InstallSqueak Image?

Andrew C. Greenberg werdna at gate.net
Tue Jun 15 13:13:57 UTC 1999


>On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 05:10:01PM +1000, Russell Allen wrote:
> > I second this; but am unsure how it would be done.  Two files, for a basic
> > install (without start menus and OS level uninstall :) would be fairly
> > simple.  One file would require modification of the VM.
> >
>
>Paul Fernhout has implemented a one-file Squeak (embedded Squeak):
>
>http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/squeak/    (Windows)
>or
>ftp://ftp.ira.uka.de/pub/squeak          (Unix)
>
>The Image is converted to a C Array which is read by the modified VM
>on startup. This seems to be very portable.


Nice.  Of course this still requires a special installer VM build for 
every new squeak release.





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