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One of the big things we intend to deal with over the next release cycle is deployment. Right now, it's kind of painful to go from application in development to application in deployment - using RuntimePackager can be pretty complex. We had a talk about this today, and it looks like a solution will appear in preview in 7.3.1. If you look in the packaging directory, you'll see a base.im - which is a first cut at a runtime image, ready to deploy. What we intend to do is simplify deployment down to a straightforward script - you'll toggle some settings, tell the system what parcels should be loaded - and ten point the script at the base image. The script will run, preparing a deployable image (or executable on Windows). This should make it far, far easier to push a product out the door.
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