Deploying Squeak Apps
Alan Kay
Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Thu Aug 1 13:52:01 UTC 2002
How about projects?
That's what we and the children use ...
Cheers,
Alan
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At 8:34 AM -0400 8/1/02, Kevin Fisher wrote:
>Hi Folks:
>
>I've been wondering about something lately...how are people on this list
>deploying Squeak applications?
>
>The way I see it you can do it one of two ways:
>
>1) An image per application, with all the changesets for the application
>pre-loaded into the image. If you've got a lot of Squeak apps though,
>this can get rather space-hungry (given the size of the image+changeset).
>You can go through the shrinking routine, and perhaps modules will help
>shrink things down as well.
>
>2) A single image. You have shell scripts/batch files written up for
>each application, that fires up the Squeak VM with the stock image, and
>loads a pre-made initialization script into the image on startup (which
>then loads whatever is needed for the application). The obvious problem
>with this is if you've got an application that uses a LOT of changesets,
>it could take a while to file them all in.
>
>3) A compromise between 1 and 2. You have a single image. When you have
>a new application, you pre-load the changesets into the image. Then you
>have a set of run-time scripts that activate the right objects for your
>application at startup.
>
>Is there a better way to do this?
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