Hi!
I just joined the mailinglist a few days ago. There was a mail from someone (sorry I accidentally deletetd it) complaining about the lack of Linux squeak to produce sound. I would like to take the opportunity to point out some other shortcomings of Linux squeak.
The one thing, that really annoys me is that squeak won't interrupt on CTRL-C. If I get stuck in an endless loop I have to kill the squeak process, restart squeak and replay the changes.
Mentioning starting squeak reminds me that I have tried to start squeak with the -xshm option to enable X shared memory extensions. If I try to resize the squeak work window it crashes. This won't happen when I start squeak without -xshm.
What confuses me is that some of the sourcecode in the image uses CR as the lineend character. Everytime I want to have a look at a method which has this line terminator I just get garbage in the method view. I have to do a format and accept to get it straight. Shouldn't the display method treat LF and CR equally?
Other thing I noticed, is that output to Transcript is very slow. Something like <? 80 timesRepeat: [Transcript show: '#'] ?> really gives you a coffee-break. I don't know if this is just a linux specific problem.
After all that bashing I want to make clear, that squeak has some aspects I really like. Just to pick one: PWS is a very ... "cool" thing. :)
I appreciate the rapid development of squeak and that it offers a playground for new ideas. This made me return to it. (After first contact with squeak about one year ago, my first reaction was to set up "The official Squeak haters page" at our university. -- Things can change :)
Alex.