[Etoys] [squeak-dev] Q: Contributing to Squeak

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Wed May 20 06:43:23 UTC 2009


On 19.05.2009, at 04:38, Gary Dunn wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 09:54 +0100, Frank Shearar wrote:
>> Gary Dunn wrote:
>>> I am a big fan of FreeBSD and am running Squeak 3.9 on FreeBSD 7.1  
>>> and
>>> Gnome 2.4. Is there something else I need to learn about and develop
>>> Etoys? There is no Etoys port in the ports tree.
>>>
>> I don't know about the plugin issues that you mention below, but you
>> should just need to install lang/squeak, and download the Etoys image
>> from wherever, and run it.
>
> Sources such as the Squeak swiki say to download Etoys from Squeakland
> (http://www.squeakland.org/download/), but that is where I only find
> downloads for Windows, Mac, Debian Linux and a Linux RPM. The release
> notes suggest these are complete implementations of Squeak.

Yes, we need to improve the Squeakland download pages for "non- 
regular" users (e.g. using minor platforms, developers, etc). Ideas  
and help appreciated.

> The release
> notes also describe a universal edition for the XO, but I don't see  
> how
> to get it.

Here it is:

http://etoys.laptop.org/src/etoys-image-and-pr.zip

Run the included image using a Squeak VM of your choice (the more  
recent the better but should still work on older ones)

- Bert -





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