first of all pardon my ignorance, trying to be a better community member but I'm still behind. Has the pharo team contemplated setting up the notion of an official "pharo runtime engine" (PRE) , to be specific users would download the runtime engine and subsequently only the "parcels" i.e. whatever the Pharo counterpart is (.st file ins ?) is distributed to users. Although Cincom does not officially support this, its actually quite simple to setup and its the way I am accustomed to delivering apps. Many in the VW community do as well. I long ago abandoned the strip down model but rather "build up". However, the runtime image is indeed an image stripped down of development tools and etc. BTW, I also provide for a modicum of security by encrypting the parcels. thanks in advance, -Charles -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-runtime-engine-tp3165570p3165570.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.