NativeBoost libraries hosting

I don’t think so. 

We cannot pollute pharo file server with specific libraries :(

we could in the future set up a service for that, but then we will need to take into account licenses, etc. 

my recommendation is that you do not include the library but instructions on where they can download/build the proper libraries. 

Esteban

On 19 Dec 2014, at 12:24, Blondeau Vincent <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi,

 

Some of us are developing some applications by using NativeBoost, which is a great tool for Pharo.

But when we want to distribute our application, we have to give the libraries with it.

We can integrate the library in the package, give a link to download an application and copy the libraries near the Pharo VM, or put it on dropbox, but it seems that are not good solutions.

 

Maybe we should have a hosting platform for these libraries?

Does http://smalltalkhub.com or http://files.pharo.org/ can do the hosting?

 

Cheers,

 

Vincent 

 

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What about writing some glue classes that check for the presence of the libraries and download them automatically if the libraries are not present?
In this way, the developer would only have to specify a download url (or at most one for each supported platform).

This sort of "caching" mechanism could be included in NativeBoost to reduce the problem of hosting the libraries and would also reduce the application size, since it would only download the binaries of the current platform.
 

Tommaso

On 20/12/14 10:20, Ben Coman wrote:

Esteban Lorenzano wrote:

I don’t think so. We cannot pollute pharo file server with specific libraries :(

we could in the future set up a service for that, but then we will need to take into account licenses, etc. my recommendation is that you do not include the library but instructions on where they can download/build the proper libraries.
Esteban

On 19 Dec 2014, at 12:24, Blondeau Vincent <[hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]>> wrote:

Hi,

Some of us are developing some applications by using NativeBoost, which is a great tool for Pharo.
But when we want to distribute our application, we have to give the libraries with it.
We can integrate the library in the package, give a link to download an application and copy the libraries near the Pharo VM, or put it on dropbox, but it seems that are not good solutions.

Maybe we should have a hosting platform for these libraries?
Does http://smalltalkhub.com <http://smalltalkhub.com/> or http://files.pharo.org/ can do the hosting?

Cheers,

Vincent

This is an interesting question I might have to deal with some time, so I had a look around for options.  (As an aside, I came across this interesting article "How I moved my websites to DropBox and Github"...
http://alexcican.com/post/guide-hosting-website-dropbox-github/ )

That makes me wonder what is wrong with using dropbox?  You might use it with a custom domain name so that later you can move services transparently to users.
http://hostlater.com/2014/04/dropbox-custom-domain-name-url-2246/

Github recommends using either "Releases" or Amazon S3 & CloudFront. Indeed it seems that "Releases" itself is built on top of CloudFront.
https://help.github.com/articles/distributing-large-binaries/
https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software

I followed this instruction as a trial...
https://help.github.com/articles/creating-releases/
and found it quite straightforward - see...
https://github.com/bencoman/Hello-World/releases
(I just used a jpg as an example)

cheers -ben