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

Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki at vpri.org
Tue May 13 04:24:11 EDT 2008


> For the records, in the version of windows vm bundled, there is
> not-yet-annouced-widely useful enhancement to trunk version.
> (I think we want to merge them to trunk and document it at squeakvm
> site) .  That can expand some variables in
> SecureDirectory/UserDirectory settings in etoys.ini :
> 
> + %MYDOCUMENTS% will be expanded to actual "My Documents" directory
> for current user.
> + Environment variables in SecureDirectory setting can be expanded now.
>
> Bundled etoys.ini would be good starting point to learn the functionality.

  Yes.  Thank you for pointing it out.  I think that the latter is in
the SVN tree on squeakvm.org, but not the former.

> Yoshiki,
> The version of VM bundled have a known problem :
> %MYDOCUMENT% is expanded with backslash terminated.
> (I think Squeak part should handle it appropriately)
> I came to know it seems fixed in the latest stuff on svn/installers
> when I built plugin installer by myself and test it last night.  You
> might want to check it out.

  These two binaries are exactly same as far as I can tell with the
"cmp" command.  Can I cause an error case in some way?

-- Yoshiki


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