[Squeak-fr] Squat release: a minimal yet extensible Smalltalk system

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Squat: a minimal yet extensible Smalltalk system

... What's news?
         I was motivated to create a Smalltalk system that had only what 
it needed to start and extend itself, so that newcomers could install 
and run the system quickly and easily.

         I've developed a minimal system which can install itself from a 
single web page visit. It's a webpage that, when visited, downloads an 
installer program and runs it. The installer program downloads a 
snapshot and virtual machine, then decompresses and runs the virtual 
machine. The virtual machine decompresses and loads the snapshot, and 
the snapshot updates itself. The installer is 60KB, the virtual machine 
is 125KB, and the snapshot is 91KB, for a total of 276KB (or about ten 
seconds of download time with a typical broadband connection).

Squat 1 alpha 7 is available, at 
http://netjam.org/squat/releases/current/.

	Comments gratefully appreciated!


	thanks,

-C

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Craig Latta
improvisational musical informaticist
craig at netjam.org
www.netjam.org
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