Except it flunked. I'm talking about Windows but with a UNIX core instead.
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Hugh Sasse <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 May 2009, Devyn Cairns wrote:
>
>> Your welcome!
>>
>> Wow... UNIX has superior awesomeness. Apple has already jumped
>> onboard. Microsoft just needs to make a UNIX-based operating system
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix
>
> Used this on an Intel 86/310 system driving a cellular logic image processor
> (CLIP4).
>
>> now instead of trying to be different and screwing things up.
>>
>> Anyway, I'm glad I could help. But the packager should work on Windows, so...
>
> It would be worth exploring the Windows options for that reason exactly.
>
> Hugh
>>
>> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Roger Ostrander <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Interestingly enough, 'Switch to Linux' was the solution. As far as
>> > packaging, goes, that is. Running the shoes packager in a VMed Ubuntu
>> > resulted in a nice pristine .exe which works fine under XP SP2.
>> > Thanks for the advice, all :)
>> >
>> > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Devyn Cairns <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Honestly, I would just say "Switch to Linux" but I know that sometimes
>> >> that isn't an option.
>> >>
>> >> It doesn't really seem like a Shoes hiccup though... what happens if
>> >> you package it on Windows XP SP2?
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Roger Ostrander <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>> Hello,
>> >>>
>> >>> I created my program on Windows XP, SP3. I used the packager to
>> >>> make it into a .exe and didn't have any problems during the process.
>> >>> However, when I transfer that .exe over to my Virtual Machine and try
>> >>> to run it, I get:
>> >>>
>> >>> Error in C:/Program Files/Common Files/Shoes/0.r1134/lib/shoes/shy.rb
>> >>> line 62
>> >>> ! invalid distance too far back
>> >>>
>> >>> So I tried testing it on my computer, only to discover that the .exe
>> >>> doesn't even work there!
>> >>>
>> >>> Error in C:/Program Files/Common
>> >>> Files/Shoes/0.r1134/lib/shoes/minitar.rb line 661
>> >>> ! Permission denied -
>> >>> C:/DOCUME~1/Roger/LOCALS~1/Temp/shoes-llm.4208/./
>> >>>
>> >>> Any help for either of these? I really like using Shoes as a
>> >>> development platform, please don't make me go back to Java :)
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> Roger
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> ~devyn
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Roger
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> ~devyn
>>
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~devyn
