Hi, On 18/08/16 11:25, Gour wrote:
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:07:23 +0200 Peter Uhnak <i.uhnak@gmail.com> wrote:
If you only target Mac and/or Win, it should be easy. If you aim for linux, then good luck⦠If I'd use some other compiled language, then covering Mac/Win would be fine considering that Linux users are (mostly) accustomed to build install using ther preferred package manager, but I'm not sure how does it work with Linux not seeing any end-user app written in Pharo available for e.g. Debian?
There is. See Phratch: http://www.phratch.com/
I have a sometimes working setup that creates a build with the VMs and platform-specific launchers, Does it also include stripping the VM from the stuff as it is done with other Smalltalks like the ones I've mentioned in original email?
I remembered some mails about locking up the image so you can't not access the developer environment. That precludes a lot of the Smalltalk power and message IMHO.
There was also effort to push for NixOS iirc, but I don't know how that works. I did consider to switch to NixOS recently, but then decide to settle on Debian for all machines I have to admin...
You can use Nix package manager with your current distro (debian, arch, etc.) This combination have worked for me when the distro repos lack of some package/version I care about or there are some dependency problems on them, so you can have it as a distro neutral alternative package manager that doesn't mess around with your current system without leaving the convenience your favorite tool set (apt, dpkg, pacman, builds, recipes and so on). Cheers, Offray