The joy's of deployment

Hi James Arden and all.

So I am almost ready to push out my updated program and back to runtime packagers parcels, baseimages ressource hacker etc.

The previous times I ended up getting my application (after many trial and errors) through the basic rtp procedure, but as allways I'll first try to get a more "intelligent ?" scripting thing.

First question:

If I try to load and use BuilderBundle as indicated in STFU:  http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?entry=3472705758

It gives immediated errors when doing anything with the Build tool.  Is it still compatible with 7.8 ?

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Second question.

On page 21-3 of the App dev guide it is mentioned that:

"When a deployed image starts up, it looks in the startup directory for

a parcel configuration file with the filename imagename.cnf, where

imagename is the same as the image file’s name. If such a file exists,

the image loads the parcel files named in the file. Parcel file names

Application Delivery should be listed one per line, and are resolved with respect to the

working directory, or the parcel path if one is specified in the

deployed image."

If I try to improve Arden's example: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/arden/blogView?showComments=true&title=Simple+Deployment&entry=3475306833#3475306833

Making a runtime.cnf file containing something like:

@echo off

@Start C:\vw7.8nc\bin\win\visual.exe C:\vw7.8nc\image\runtime.im -cnf C:\vw7.8nc\image\runtime.cnf  -doit 'SpiderSolitaireUI open'

And the runtime.cnf file containing something like:

-pcl C:\vw7.8nc\image\SpiderSolitaire.pcl

This does not work, the -d switch is not recognised.

I understood from the documentation that normally I should be able to do something like:

@echo off

@Start C:\vw7.8nc\bin\win\visual.exe C:\vw7.8nc\image\runtime.im

The runtime.cnf should be searched for and if it containes something like:

-pcl C:\vw7.8nc\image\SpiderSolitaire.pcl

-doit 'SpiderSolitaireUI open'

I would expect that to work. But it doesn't either ?

As a naive person I would expect a renamed vm like visual.exe to  solitaire.exe to look for solitaire.im looking for solitaire.cnf making it possible to create a clean Windows shortcut defining working directory and executable name.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Maarten,

Thanks James, that wuld be Cool

No matter how I turn things it seems that  runtime.cnf is totally unsupported in 7.8 ???

Anything that looks like:

C:\vw7.8nc\bin\win\visual.exe  C:\vw7.8nc\image\runtime.im -cnf C:\vw7.8nc\image\runtime.cnf

Just doesn't work !!!!

In the meantime I managed to get to the first step of the striping process leaving me with this on the second step.

The vm gets blocked !

If anyone can give me any hint how to bring this further a copy is here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5848367/stakepoint.im

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