2008/5/22 Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez <m.coba.m at gmail.com>:
> I think that the distribution of Squeak on Debian should be this way:
>
> 1- VM.
>  A suitable current stable version of the squeak vm should be part of the
> distro. This is source code in the "classical" way that it is converted to
> an executable file shipped with debian or downloaded from the debian
> repositories/mirrors. This is already happening.
>
> 2. An independent repository/location/url (squeak.org) should provide a
> standard location (a la debian repo) from several images (minimal, Damian's,
> FunSqueak, etc), with a sensible name format, that should be downloaded (at
> the debian user responsability) at the postinstall step of installing
> squeakvm. This maybe can show the user the list (with short and full
> descriptions) of the goal of each image and the user should be given the
> chance of download them. All of then if he so wants.
> This can be a little like the ruby gems, where you download and install the
> gem program from debian and download the particular gems from other sources.
> Or maybe like the old sun java installation using make-jpkg. Or maybe like
> the bcm43xx drivers instalation from pre 2.4.25 kernels, where you install
> one part (the driver) from debian repos and the other part (the firmware for
> the wireless card) from a public site unrelated to debian.
>
> So, I don't think that should be good to try to do all the debian way,
> because (as ruby's gems, as Perl's CPAN, as TeX CTAN) there is no way that
> debian could maintain all the code is in the web.
>
> What do you think?
>

2. or simple note where to download squeak image(s).

we can even reserve a web page, say squeak.org/debian

>



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