[Vm-dev] One-Click as VM

[keith]

On 27 Jan 2010, at 16:31, keith wrote:



>> John wrote:

>> So remind me why you want to do this.
>
> I wanted to be able to distribute a vm for Cuis, which is cross  
> platform, and runs with a different icon and name in the menubar.  
> The idea being to distribute everything except the image/changes, as  
> a single zip file. The fact that it doesn't pick up the sources file  
> from anywhere within the .app package, put the spanner in the works,  
> but you have pointed me in the right direction.
>
> The image/changes file can be combined into one if one felt the  
> need, so Cuis becomes "normal" in the sense of having a document  
> (the image) and an application.
>
>> The one-click plugins are usually assembled by a third party and  
>> contain a mixture of things, there could be or could not be the  
>> most recent plugins, or VM in the set of folders.
>> On the macintosh the info.plist could be altered and not actually  
>> have a version number that matches what version the VM is.
>
> Secondly once I have this "universal vm" under scm with bazaar, I  
> can keep it up to date easily everywhere it is deployed,  
> irrespective of what vms are installed on the base machine.
>
> Thirdly, using bazaar, we have a starting point for users to branch,  
> forming derived vms, with different plugins, different icons for the  
> dock, or classic one-click behaviour with the image/changes  
> included. The branch can continue to merge in updates as they occur.
>
> Finally, the ./Contents/Resources folder is looking pretty  
> cluttered, and I tend to have enough clutter of my own. So I wanted  
> to be able to have the working directory alongside the vm.app , or  
> just inside it for one-click behaviour.
>
>> However if you wish to stuff the sources in the *.app/Contents/ 
>> Resources you would have to change the Smalltalk code where it  
>> hunts for the sources file and have it hunt
>> where you think the sources file should be. This is not a function  
>> of the VM, it's a Smalltalk code problem.

Unfortunately, I don't know where the sources should be, because there  
appears to be no function that will tell you the path into the .app  
tree  which is where I wanted to put them. #primVmPath tells you the  
parent directory, but not the name of the .app

any ideas?

Keith
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