snapshot: NoCandyPresource.star

http://nocandysw.com/starchive/NoCandyPresource.star is a snapshot of
Presource from a larger package.  Load it with a very recent devo to try
it out.  Look at the commentaries in the st files therein to learn about
it, or read my earlier post about it
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-smalltalk/2007-03/msg00029.html>.

Presource is now released under the GNU GPL v3 (or later).

This is the Presource I used to write and test the % compiler-macro
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-smalltalk/2007-06/msg00065.html>.

Incidentally, I made this with `zip -n .st:.xml NoCandyPresource.star
*.st *.xml COPYING', and I propose that all packages be made like this
by default (regardless of whether they contain a COPYING).

I'm on vacation so haven't been able to work on much for the past week;
I'll be back next week.  In the meantime, I invite everyone to complain
to me about Presource.

--
;;; Stephen Compall ** http://scompall.nocandysw.com/blog **
But you know how reluctant paranormal phenomena are to reveal
themselves when skeptics are present. --Robert Sheaffer, SkI 9/2003



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> Incidentally, I made this with `zip -n .st:.xml NoCandyPresource.star
> *.st *.xml COPYING', and I propose that all packages be made like this
> by default (regardless of whether they contain a COPYING).

Doing this would only be beneficial if it means not requiring unzip.
You would have to modify kernel/VFS.st to provide, instead of #uzip, a
special file system used to load STAR files -- one that would only
support stored files.  Once this is done, I'm ok with adding the -n
option.  I had considered it but, since there is a requirement for unzip
anyway so far, I chose not to.

Thanks for trying this out!

Paolo


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