It's possible if releases are published / committed in a Github repo. It can even include VM and all other dependencies. As a matter of facts this code can work for even the updating Pharo itself completely bypassing Pharolauncher. GitHub and git can easily handle binary files of any size.
On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 at 21:52, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 3:01 AM, Dimitris Chloupis > <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am on holidays to at London for Christmas with no direct access to my > > machine. > > > > But you can get a very good idea how to do what you want by taking a > look at > > standalone Pharo apps like Phratch and Dr Geo . The good news is that is > > both very easy and extremely flexible. You can also change the icon of > the > > app and and the name of the Pharo executable to make the user completely > > unaware officials Pharo existence. You can also add squeak to your google > > searches because they have been several posts about this in the squeak > > mailing list . Pharo is incompatible with squeak but it's still a fork of > > squeak so there is a lot of common ground. > > > > After that you can start removing packages you don't need, Pharo is in > the > > process of of being modularlized so that is easy to start with a skeleton > > image. If you are in need of a specific Pharo library choosing Cuis > which is > > also a squeak fork is simple and much lighter than Pharo image. Squeak , > > Pharo and Cuis share the same VMs. > > > > Las but not least if you are on Windows there has been a thread on our > list > > on how to make window installers for Pharo apps the easy way. You may > want > > to google that too, I think Damien made a guide about it . > > > > We can go on and on and on how much Pharo can be customized. I even > recently > > made an auto update functionality for me Pharo project ChronosManager > which > > detects if the github repository has a new release available and > downloads > > it so that the user use always the latest stable release without a need > to > > worry about it or do anything about it ;) > > Cool. Is that something possible to extract? It would be nice to see > such added to PharoLauncher. > cheers -ben > >
