On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 9:22 PM, julius <julius@wokabulary.com> wrote:
I'm new to Smalltalk, I did the Inria MOOC and really like the way of how to construct applications. Still I wonder how development teams approach development with Pharo.
Currently I'm thinking of implementing a small idea of mine with Pharo since Seaside felt quite nice when I experimented a bit. The project would need to be open source because I want to apply for funding at a initiative that only supports open source projects. But then I don't have the feeling that the Monticello approach is the most inviting way to get funding or contributors considering everyone is used to Github. I found now the guide to Git with Pharo by Peter Uhnak (thanks for writing that post!) so maybe this would be a good solution...
Searching for best practices I read about some projects that make sure developers always get a new image every day,
I wouldn't expect developers to religiously download a new image every day. (But I'd be curious to learn of a documented workflow doing this.) One of the great features of Pharo is the persistency of the Image and its just as easy to update to the latest code using Monticello or github, with the additional benefit that you get a diff of changes to review. The main benefits of daily image builds are CI running unit tests that include the latest Pharo changes, having a stake in the ground of a working system for "new" developers to get up an running, and keeping a deployable end-user product up to date. I personally tend to stick with one Image for a while on one task, and jump to the latest image any time I would be wanting to start with a fresh image anyway.
how could that be implemented without too much hassle of needing a server with some kind of build system.
Do you mean to avoid setting up a server scratch yourself, or even not using someone else's server? Inria (who host several of Pharo's core dev team) graciously provide a CI service for the community. https://ci.inria.fr/
*tl;dr*: how could and should I approach the development of an open source project with Pharo, considering acceptance of Monticello usage and sharing of pharo images?
Stef's answer here is good. cheers -ben