El mié, 04-11-2009 a las 15:17 -0500, Chris Cunnington escribió:
> Hi all, 
> 
> I have a pair of suggestions. The first is about the Linux download
> from the squeak.org homepage. The second is about the RFB package from
> Squeak Map Package Loader. 
> 
> When a person downloads the Croquet SDK they only need to double click
> on a shell script to start the image for Linux. This one click
> solution is the same as the Mac and PC. At the moment if you hit the
> Linux link, you get a VM and some instructions. The person then needs
> to hunt for what they need and then install it. Quelle drag. I've
> created a linux.zip package that is a one click solution, hit a shell
> script to start the image in Linux Squeak. It's pretty easy to bundle
> what they need and create a shell script like (I suppose) Andreas
> did. 
> 
> The other thing is whether there is a RFB maintainer. RFB is really,
> really fun. Downloading the package from the SMPL (and I suppose this
> problem is the same in Squeaksource) and finding it doesn't work is a
> big let down. Seaside comes with a WAVNCController app ready to
> register as an application, too. To make Ian P.'s RFB work online, I
> found  a forum with some code, copied it into a file, and used it as a
> patch. It seems to me that this is the kind of thing a maintainer
> is/ought to be doing. I take it that the RFB package worked in 2006
> and then broke with new Squeaks, and that's why I needed this hard to
> find piece of code. (Which I haven't bothered to try and understand,
> by the way). If nobody is maintaining RFB, I'm willing to be the
> maintainer. If you need a maintainer that understands RFB top to
> bottom, then I'm not qualified, nor will I bone up on the topic just
> for the job. But if being a maintainer means that people point the
> news to me and I do what's necessary to see that the latest, working
> version is available, then I'd like to help. 

Current working RFBServer is on

http://source.lukas-renggli.ch/unsorted

It runs on Squeak and Pharo. Also, it has other improvements over the
squeaksource version.

It is used and tested on Pharo.

Also, read

http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/pharo-project/2009-August/011824.html

Cheers

> 
> Chris  
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