[Etoys] A new experimental version of OLPC image for non-XO environments

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Feb 21, 2008, at 6:18 , K. K. Subramaniam wrote:

> On Wednesday 20 February 2008 3:34:55 am Milan Zimmermann wrote:
>
>> Is the 3.9-12 you have a problem with basen on SVN code or  
>> something ... I
>> would actually like to try install something later than Oct 2006  
>> if just to
>> test...
> No. 3.9-12 is from the zip file. I cannot even get the binary to
> run 'squeak -version'. It collapses when it tries to load libc.so. 
> 6. Here is
> a simple test:
>  $ unzip OLPC-Etoys080211.zip 3.9-12/squeak
>  $ 3.9-12/squeak -version
>   Floating point exception
>  $ rm -f 3.9-12
>
> The version compiled off the olpc/ branch (rev 1816) in svn runs  
> fine on my
> box.
>  $ bld/squeak
>  3.9-12 #1 Thu Feb 21 10:34:18 IST 2008 gcc 4.1.2
>  Squeak3.9alpha of 4 July 2005 [latest update: #7021]

The included 3.9-12 VM works fine on Fedora 7.

Yoshiki: I think we need to change a few things in the etoys.sh script:

- set encoding to UTF-8
- provide a sensible SQUEAK_SECUREDIR (~/.etoys?) and SQUEAK_USERDIR  
(~/Etoys?).

Besides, don't we want to add the browser plugin? And how about  
supporting a system-wide installation?

Same goes for Windows and Mac, btw. Isn't it time Etoys becomes a  
"real" application? I mean, no fiddling with images and dropping  
things onto executables etc. Just double-click and go, saving to a  
sensible place in the user's documents.

- Bert -