Am Sonntag, 20.07.03 um 09:02 Uhr schrieb Craig Latta:
> Hi--
>
> 	Now that I've made a suitably small virtual machine, I've finished a
> new version of a complete installation package for Squat, along the
> lines of "relief" (http://netjam.org/relief ). It's a webpage that, 
> when
> visited, downloads an installer program and runs it. The installer
> program downloads a snapshot, a virtual machine, and the Flow plugin,
> decompresses the virtual machine and the Flow plugin, and runs the
> virtual machine. The virtual machine decompresses the snapshot, and the
> snapshot updates itself.
>
> 	The current sizes are 93,352 bytes for the snapshot, 18,973 bytes for
> the Flow plugin, 107,642 bytes for the virtual machine, and 61,440 
> bytes
> for the installer program, for a total of 281,407 bytes.

Impressive!

>  The
> decompressor is is both the virtual machine and installer; I could save
> about 40K by loading it dynamically in each case... I'll save that for
> some future version.

How about making the VM *be* the installer?

> 	Next I'm going to write my first Squat application, which is a 
> snapshot
> that updates itself enough to display my resume, then displays it. :)

Now *that* is a nice portfolio ;-) It gives a whole new double-sense to 
"application" :^)

-- Bert