>> I didn't, but wait. What does this intall? Why not to simply package the >> libraries with the VM? > > because it is a third-party library. > To me, your proposal sounds similar to "why not simply package > Operating System libraries with the VM". > Because in this case you need cairo. But in case of OpenGL, you will > need opengl libs.. so "package everything" goes nowhere. > >> I tried once to use port/fink and I broke the internal of OSX, after having >> downloaded 500 Mb. >> > i know that using external libs sometimes is painful. But this is like > that. And we're not alone with these problems. > I think there's many other software which have to deal with it. > > Another solution is to implement everything by own :)
Well... The Cairo libraries are shipped with VisualWorks. When I install VW, I've just say that I want Cairo, and everything works well. I have played a bit with Cairo on VW and I am quite happy so far. I would not have played with it if I had to install the lib externally with port/fink. I personally would not mind to have the virtual machine twice as big if cairo is shipped with it. I think it depends on what do you want to do in the mid-long term: throwing away the squeak bitmap rendering and using Cairo for real? What should be the external library, the squeak bitmap rendering or Cairo? Alexandre -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.
