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by rsayers 1618 days ago
In the Squeak/Pharo world, a built in tool called Iceberg handles VCS integration and is pretty slick. You can also easily load packages from external sources. In practice most packages are installed from their GitHub repo.

Deployments can start with a stock image, load your code and run, without you having to move around an actual binary blob from machine to machine.