Squeak CrossPlatform is GREAT!

giovanni giorgi giovanni.giorgi at mlab.disco.unimi.it
Sat Oct 16 09:14:41 UTC 1999


Hello!
  I have to point out a very confortable feature
of Squeak vs VW3.0 NC.

If you try to set-up an image under Windows with VW and then you 
want to use it under Linux, you will have some trouble.
This because VW3.0 DO NOT save properly the virtual path of the sources
and so it will not "find them" under Linux.
You must manually patch this problem every time you switch to the other OS.
And this is a big problem.
(If you have parcel, the problem can be even bigger if you do not use
relative path!!)

But Squeak is smart: you can run the SAME image, **even** with the same
command line options,
and with a little of care you can run PWS at startup too!

You must only re-initialize PWS before runing it, because it will use the
wrong path instead.
The serverPath method(s)'d be properly set-up using realtive and logical
path 
and ALL will work right!!

Do VW5i solve this problem?!
  





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