Squat progress 19 July 2003: new version of complete installation package

PhiHo Hoang phiho.hoang at rogers.com
Sun Jul 20 19:05:25 UTC 2003


Hi Bert ,

> > 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!

    Indeed !

> >  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?
>

    Nah, that makes it too platform specific, (MobVM in mind ;-)

> > 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" :^)
> 

    and a Squatta Sutra would add tons of fun ;-)

    Cheers,

    PhiHo.



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