Newbie question deploying smalltalk applications

> If you want to deploy a source package for others to consume just use
> Monticello and SqueakSource. But I think you talk about deploying
> to an end user (commercial product, ...) not about making code
> available for other pharo developers.
>
>
> So how to deploy a "consumer" app with Pharo:
> =============================================
> As always that depends on kind of application and the target system
> you want to deploy to.
> Typically you distribute an image with the running/prepared
> application together with the VM for the target platform:
>
> First the VM
> ============
>
> Some scenarios:
>
> A. If you have written a seaside web application you can deploy
>    the image/VM on your own root server or on a seaside hosting
>    platform (like www.seasidehosting.com). There is a good
>    description in the seaside book [1].
>
>    Thats an easy deployment since you just have to tell your
>    customer a URL where the app runs.
>
> B. If you want to deploy to iPhone just ask John McIntosh
>    how he packaged the app (iphone vm + image) for the Apple Store
>    Since the memory is limited you may have to reduce the image
>    size (unload packages, ...) with an own custom shrinking script
>
> C. If you want to deploy a desktop like app/or web app to
>    multiple platforms use the one click distribution since there
>    are already VM's for Linux, Win, Mac. Just exchange the image
>    with your own one. Have a look at the piercms.com application
>    or the seaside image. They use this kind of deployment with a ZIP.
>
> D. If you deploy to windows (Win32 only) you may want to
>    be closer to Windows app rules - so you may want to build a
>    custom Win VM executable (*.exe) with your own icons and a
>    platform specific installer copying the image and VM.
>
>    See [2] how to do that. The Pharo Win32 Installer is built
>    this way. If you think VM building is rocket science  
>    you can also exchange the icons using reshacker [3] in
>    a standard Pharo windows VM.
>
> And the image
> =============
>
> Anything other depends on how you prepare the image. Typically
> you may want to
>
> 1. Reduce the image size by throwing out anything that
>   is not required by your app and which is useless for your
>   customer (unit tests, dev tools).
>
>   This process is called "shrinking" an image. Take care since it
>   is often usefull to keep dev tools inside since you can easily
>   debug a failure situation at your customers place later.
>   At least you typically may want to disable developer facilities,
>   implement a different walkback window so the customer gets
>   a notification instead of a "debug it" button and so on, ...
>
>   To reduce the size of the image I would also clear
>   Monticello caches, throw out unused Form instances, ...
>   There are many tricks here - depends on how far you want
>   to go. Google for "Squeak" and "shrinking" and you will find more.
>
>   If size doesnt matter just use the image as it is or
>   use a pharo-dev image for development and a pharo-core image
>   for deployment.  
>
> 2. However - typically you just want to deploy the VM only together
>   with the image, no changes and source file necessary for your
>   customer.
>   Therefore you may want to disable the two preferences
>   "warnIfNoSourcesFile" and "warnIfNoChangesFile" (see [2]) before
>   saving the image. So you dont have to redistribute the changes
>   and source files
>
> 3. Open your application, either manually or by a custom launcher
>   and the startup list (see [2])
>
> 4. Save your image in this predefined "ready" state so when the
>   customer starts the image with the VM he can instantly use
>   your app.
>
> So "deployment" in Smalltalk is different and a little bit more
> complicated since you have many options.
>
> It would help if you would tell us a little bit more so we
> can answer specific questions...
>
> Bye
> Torsten
>
>
> [1] http://book.seaside.st/book/advanced/deployment
> [2] http://squeakvm.org/win32/custom.html
> [3] http://angusj.com/resourcehacker/
>
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