[Etoys] Squeaklets/

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Feb 1, 2008, at 9:39 , Luke Gorrie wrote:

> On 31/01/2008, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>> This works fine in the etoys bundle.
>
> So it's a bit naive of us to derive our image from the Etoys
> development image without using the ReleaseBuilderSqueakland stuff for
> "deploymentizing". Changing the startupInUntrustedDirectory preference
> does fix this, but then I hit more trouble when I tried to load a
> project with a changeset -- I'm guessing because the .changes file
> isn't writable.
>
> For now I'll try to steal enough fragments from
> ReleaseBuilderSqueakland to make everything work.
>
> Going forwards we should probably look closely at what Hilaire has
> with DrGeoII. For example it might be nice if our "main menu project"
> included a full changeset of all of our Smalltalk code and also
> included all the sound clips / fonts / etc that we feel the need for
> (using installation tricks in the changeset postscript as needed).
> Then we could use the base etoys.image and once the main menu was
> loaded we'd know that all the code and other resources that the other
> projects need is pre-available.
>
> What do you think?
>
> -Luke going into hack and slash mode to just get something published
> as a reference point :-)


Sounds like a plan :)

We then just need to work on project loading speed to make that work  
really nicely.

- Bert -