In working on ExternalWebBrowser, I got thinking about loading platform-specific (i.e. Mac/Windows) code. ExternalWebBrowser does a check in a class>>initialization, and only installs a library that is required for operation on Macs, if the image is running on a Mac. Something about this feels wrong. I want to be able to put my image and a VM on a USB key and bring it to a client, who may be running on Windows (gasp!), and run the image. It's easy enough to bring or download a VM, but ExternalWebBrowser is now locked in "Mac-mode." In a service with equivalent Windows/Unix-specific requirements, it might be difficult (or impossible) to get it to work. It seems to me better to either: * install all such requirements right off the bat (for one thing - you probably have an internet connection to download them) * or, put a lazy initialization for it, so the first time the functionality is used, the packages are installed. I guess this would depend on there being a single access point to all the platform code. What do you all think? Thanks. Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Loading-platform-specific-code-tp2318610p2318610.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com.