[squeak-dev] Changes file

Louis LaBrunda Lou at Keystone-Software.com
Thu Mar 30 14:00:51 UTC 2017


Hi Guys,

Exactly what I wanted to know.

Lou


On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:46:34 +0200, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 7:26 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> > On 29-03-2017, at 9:13 AM, Louis LaBrunda <Lou at Keystone-Software.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Guys,
>> >
>> > I have a Squeak program that I run headless on a Raspberry Pi.  The
>> program starts when the
>> > Raspberry boots (Raspbian Jessie Lite).  The image is never saved.  The
>> same image is always
>> > run when the Raspberry boots.  Do I need the changes file?  It seems to
>> grow every time the
>> > program starts.  Can I stop this?  Thanks in advance for any and all
>> insight.
>>
>> If you simply rename your prepared headless image after saving it then
>> when it starts up it will not find the changes file. That *should* be
>> enough; it works for Scratch. The sources file will still be found unless
>> you remove it completely (probably not a good idea on your development
>> machine!) but since we don’t write to it you won’t really notice.
>>
>
>This only works if you disable the warnIfNoChangesFile and
>warnIfNoSourcesFile preferences. Otherwise your headless image will show a
>warning dialog and wait for the user to dismiss it.
>
>So just disable these prefs and save the image. Then you don't need sources
>or changes.
>
>- Bert -
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Louis LaBrunda
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