a factory of images, interesting... this comes to mind: Werner Vogels, Amazon's CTO, once said "make your administration part of the app" this feature seems to open that door in a deep level for Pharo keep the good work sebastian o/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Guido Chari" <charig@gmail.com> To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 12:13:54 PM Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] new command line api to build images Very cool and useful!!! I bet that most of the work that bash is doing could be done from the image. So a nice next to for the future could be... ImageInstaller new installNewImageWithName: '' intoDirectory: '' withConfigurations: #(...), etc.. Guido. 2012/10/18 Sven Van Caekenberghe < sven@stfx.eu > On 18 Oct 2012, at 16:13, Camillo Bruni < camillobruni@gmail.com > wrote:
We're almost there, create your images from the command-line with a very limited number of bash lines ;)
#==================================================================================== VM=`pharo-shell-scripts/fetchLatestVM.sh` unzip -ou Pharo-2.0.zip -d . && cd Pharo-2.0
$VM -headless Pharo-2.0.image config http://ss3.gemstone.com/ss/ci ConfigurationOfCI --install $VM -headless Pharo-2.0.image save CI --delete-old
zip -r CI.zip CI.changes CI.image *.sources #====================================================================================
there you go, a new image named CI with the given configuration installed.
We still have to extend the API a little bit to support loading specific groups from a Metacello config + accessing repositories by username and password.
best cami
Beautiful software ! I think I would first save under a new name without deleting and then do an install to keep the original clean. Good work. Sven -- Sven Van Caekenberghe http://stfx.eu Smalltalk is the Red Pill