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
