2016-08-23 16:26 GMT-03:00 kmo <vox...@gmail.com>: > <<Pharo has the easiest deployment in any language I have used.>> > > Only if you think deployment means shipping your entire development > environment to users and telling them to get on with it. > > Pharo is absolutely the worst language for deployment in the world. This is > why, after all these years, there have only ever been three desktop > applications written in it - phratch, dr geo, and the a legal database > thing. (i suppose you could be generous and include pharo launcher as well > - > though that's a bit incestuous). > > You forgot to mention PhyloclassTalk which also includes a Windows Installer written in Unicode NSIS. I have two generators for this: A code generator written in Pharo to generate the NSIS script, and an image builder batch script which downloads image from ZeroConf, loads everything through Metacello, and launches NSIS to generate the executable file.
I probably do the same for CPack, but now I am busy finishing a paper. You were right in part, deployment in Pharo is not easy and other fashion industry languages perform better, but it is not impossible. > All other applications written in pharo are web apps so deployment is not > an > issue. > > There may be good reasons for the lack of attention paid to the deployment > of apps but pretending there is no problem is crazy. > > I agree with you on this one. We (Smalltalkers) need mountains of self-criticism and slow reading. Hernán
