[Moose-dev] Re: Using moose to install portable apps?

Hi, Thanks Alexandre and Nicolas for your answers. I understand that moose is a tool for software analysis and not used to install or execute anything. I'm trying to stretch the uses a little. I imagine that you can use Smalltalk to declare something like: * download this. * create this folder * extract this on this folder * run this. This four steps are the only thing that are needed to "install & execute" portable apps[1]. It seems to me that Moose would be capable of running these steps. I was thinking that because of the data oriented nature of moose, it will have properly support for Operative System task as downloading, extracting, etc (something like the os.system calls in python, but a la Smalltalk way). And because of the flexibility of visualizations and browsers would be possible to write particular GUI for this kind of "scripts". Having a One Click Experience Moose with this kind of scripts for several apps for different operative systems would let you bootstrap a portable "personal learning environment" that is real my intention (data analysis would come after). Is this possible? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_application Cheers, Offray Alex, nice to have you in Chile and seeing, with Argentina, a stronger Smalltalk Latin American presence. On Wed Nov 30 09:04:03 2011, Nicolas Anquetil wrote: