linux squeak

Torsten Sadowski moehl at akaflieg.extern.tu-berlin.de
Wed Jul 16 08:52:27 UTC 2003


Now that I know what inisqueak is for, its missing from the debian
packages, too.

Torsten

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Lex Spoon wrote:

> David Farber <dfarber at numenor.com> wrote:
> >
> > The way it used to work was that the executable and any plugins got installed into a directory like /usr/bin that everyone could access. Then you could run inisqueak in a clean directory of your own and it would copy a fresh image there for you to use. So each user wound up having their own image file, but shared the executeable.
> >
>
> Yes.  There are two great things about this script:
>
> 	1. It is a single command to run Squeak, which is great for Squeak
> newbies.  You don't have to think about image files, etc. -- just type
> inisqueak.
>
> 	2. It is suitable from running from a menu, so that you can install the
> Squeak package and then run it from a menu to try it out.
>
> IMHO, this is such a convenient script that inisqueak should be named
> "squeak", and squeak should be named "squeak-vm".  But I wouldn't relish
> getting into *that* debate, much less dealing with the inconsistency
> with other platforms.
>
>
> Lex
>
>
>



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