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Johan Björk announced the release of SqueakFS, which allows you to browse and search all objects contained in your squeak image from your local file system. The file system functionality is provided by a socket client built on top of FusePython. This client translates file system paths into squeak objects and queries a server running in the squeak image for details on these objects. In order to do this, SqueakFS uses FusePython for file system support and is dependent on both FUSE and Python and will only work on UNIX systems. SqueakFS had been developed and tested on Linux 2.6 and MacOS Leopard running on Intel systems.
Not how I would want to browse Smalltalk code myself, but I can definitely seeing it as useful - heck, if you made it read-only and posted it to an HTTP server, it would make the entire image crawlable.
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