Neat!  So how about having the image startup code automatically
decompress its changes file, if needed?  Then people could distribute
Squeak2.6.changes.gz instead of Squeak2.6.changes, and we could get past
this annoying attempt at do-what-you-think-i-mean.

Anyway, I personally consider ZIP files to be a pretty good distribution
mechanism.  What would really be helpful would be a small script that
takes an image and creates k different ZIP files, one for each platform.
 It could create self-extracting ZIP files for platforms that support
it, and it might use tar.gz instead of ZIP for unix, but anyway it would
save the manual labor probably inherent in distributing a Squeak
program.

Of course this is hypothetical; it seems rare for people to bother
packaging up a Squeak program for anyone who doesn't already have
Squeak, so we don't really *know* what will be a nuisance about it.


Lex


"Raab, Andreas" <Andreas.Raab at disney.com> wrote:
> Ah ... that reminds me. In case you haven't noticed, there is a new item in
> the file list that says 'compress file'. Compresses into GZip and you can
> always decompress it again by selecting the file and choose 'decompress to
> file'. Both should be quite fast with a 2.7 VM (which has a little primitive
> support for the critical parts).
> 
> Should be quite helpful for anything related to installation.
> 
>   - A.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew C. Greenberg [mailto:werdna at gate.net]
> > Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2000 9:20 PM
> > To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> > Cc: recipient list not shown
> > Subject: Re: Bizarre Browser Behavior
> > 
> > 
> > >I got bit by this bug for 2.6.
> > >
> > >I'm wondering if changing the file type to something other 
> > than TEXT would
> > >help. Then Stuffit would not try to translate it. Squeak 
> > wouldn't care. And
> > >anyone that wanted to read the file with a text editor could 
> > change the
> > >type easily enough.
> > 
> > The sooner we make a self-expanding image or installation program, 
> > the sooner this will disappear.
> >