3.0gamma files available on UIUC

Henrik Gedenryd Henrik.Gedenryd at lucs.lu.se
Tue Feb 13 13:48:26 UTC 2001


Dan Ingalls wrote:

> Squeak3.0gamma.image.gz
> Squeak3.0gamma.changes.gz

> 
> The first two can be decompressed by Squeak to provide image and changes for
> any platform.  The third, for Mac users, includes image, changes and the
> latest VM for the Mac in a single self-extracting archive.

Hmm, I just had an idea.

If a VM starts, and detects that the "image" it is supposed to open has a
name ending in .gz, it uses the builtin gzip plugin to uncompress the file.
On the Mac it could also give it the right file type, from the .image or
changes.suffix. It could also look for a corresponding *.changes.gz file and
uncompress that.

Then it would open the uncompressed files instead. (or: finish, requiring
the user to open the uncompressed VM instead. Perhaps with a diaolog box
about having to do this, before quitting.)

In this way, people don't need to have the appropriate uncompression tools
to get started, just as long as they have the right vm (which then ought to
be distributed uncompressed.)

Henrik






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