Porting to a MAC

Hi All.  I'm a long time (25+ years) Smalltalk user, but only 3 days using
Pharo so I'm still stumbling around a bit (lot).

I have an app that I need to run on Windows and a Mac (possibly Linux at a
later date).  I've ported the code over from Dolphin and got it working
using Pharo 3.0 on my Windows box.  I am just going to set the app
running, save the image and then send the whole Pharo folder over to the
Windows user - that will work won't it?

The problem is the Mac user.  As I can't set up the Mac image in the same
way (I have no access to a Mac box) I was wondering if I could just
replace the changes,sources and image files in the Mac download with the
ones I've set up for Windows and send that to him.  Would that work or do
I need to send him file outs of my code and talk him through install and
set-up.

Thanks

Hi Ian:

I know very well you (at least by the code that was very helpful to me on Dolphin!). Thanks for such contributions to the community!

And yes, the image, changes and source are interchangeable between operating systems with no problems.

Thanks to you both for the confirmation about using the Windows files, it
will make things a lot simpler.

Given the situation I imagine there are a number of ex Dolphin users
floating about here - Hi All.  I noticed the, sadly, late Bill Schwab
posted here sometimes, and he was once as much a committed a Dolphin user
as I was.  I shall continue using Dolphin though, the ability to create
Windows executables is too useful to give up.

My only problem now is that as I ported my app from Dolphin to Pharo I
made some significant changes - so now I've got to port it back the other
way!

On 2/11/14 19:45, Ian Bartholomew wrote:
> Hi All.  I'm a long time (25+ years) Smalltalk user, but only 3 days using
> Pharo

Welcome!
> so I'm still stumbling around a bit (lot).
You will get there :)
>
> I have an app that I need to run on Windows and a Mac (possibly Linux at a
> later date).  I've ported the code over from Dolphin and got it working
> using Pharo 3.0 on my Windows box.  I am just going to set the app
> running, save the image and then send the whole Pharo folder over to the
> Windows user - that will work won't it?

Yes why it would not :)
> The problem is the Mac user.  As I can't set up the Mac image in the same
> way (I have no access to a Mac box) I was wondering if I could just
> replace the changes,sources and image files in the Mac download with the
> ones I've set up for Windows and send that to him.
Yes it should work. You can also ask us to try on our macs.

> Would that work or do I need to send him file outs of my code and talk him through install and
> set-up.
You can use the one-click setup?

> Thanks to you both for the confirmation about using the Windows files, it
> will make things a lot simpler.
>
> Given the situation I imagine there are a number of ex Dolphin users
> floating about here - Hi All.  I noticed the, sadly, late Bill Schwab
> posted here sometimes, and he was once as much a committed a Dolphin user
> as I was.  I shall continue using Dolphin though, the ability to create
> Windows executables is too useful to give up.
I imagine.
>
> My only problem now is that as I ported my app from Dolphin to Pharo I
> made some significant changes - so now I've got to port it back the other
> way!

Ian Bartholomew-23 wrote

Thanks to you both for the confirmation about using the Windows files, it
will make things a lot simpler.

Given the situation I imagine there are a number of ex Dolphin users
floating about here - Hi All.  I noticed the, sadly, late Bill Schwab
posted here sometimes, and he was once as much a committed a Dolphin user
as I was.  I shall continue using Dolphin though, the ability to create
Windows executables is too useful to give up.

Yes, it was a sad news of Bill's death, I read the list of Dolphin.

About Dolphin, well, as you point, the ability to generate an exe and some other features more of the side of publishing a commercial app, make hard to abandon it (also the UI builder).

My password manager PasswordsPro is still in Dolphin and will stay there for some time yet ...

> Yes, it was a sad news of Bill's death, I read the list of Dolphin.

yes sad!
>
> About Dolphin, well, as you point, the ability to generate an exe and some
> other features more of the side of publishing a commercial app, make hard to
> abandon it (also the UI builder).

Yes we would love to have the same facilities.
This is why we worked on Fuel because we would like to have a better
deployement (but this is orthogonal to deliver dll).
We would love people to work on that.
> My password manager PasswordsPro is still in Dolphin and will stay there for
> some time yet ...
>

stepharo wrote

> About Dolphin, well, as you point, the ability to generate an exe and some
> other features more of the side of publishing a commercial app, make hard to
> abandon it (also the UI builder).

Yes we would love to have the same facilities.
This is why we worked on Fuel because we would like to have a better
deployement (but this is orthogonal to deliver dll).
We would love people to work on that.

Even when Dolphin can generate dll's, to my point of view is more important the
capacity of generate a standalone executable (for Windows operating systems) and
the ability of behave as a native application (multiple windows for example).