Squeak's "general acceptance" - more aspects

Cees De Groot cdegroot at gmail.com
Mon Jul 4 08:14:20 UTC 2005


On 7/3/05, Geza Lakner MD <geza67 at freestart.hu> wrote:
> wxSqueak is a heroic effort (kudos Rob Gayvert !!!) but it has
> inherent weaknesses in the deployment area: Squeak has by-nature a
> HUGE footprint base system (by 'base' I do not mean barely usable ;-)
> which could be done by shrinking the image into only 3-4 MBs), wx
> libraries may add a factor of two to overall package size, not to
> count the mixed licensing situation.
>
Hmm.. Huge? Our application ends up inside an NSIS installer of less
than 15Mb, and that's because we haven't bothered to shrink the image.
15Mb in today's broadband world isn't exactly huge, and it's easy
enough to make it 5Mb.



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