Little feedback too. I was surprised by the new download as some students had to install on windows⦠hopefully, I had old win versions but it has disturbed me :) Still handy and straightforward to just put an image on the VM. Butâ¦this being said, I just tried on Mac and this works nicely and this is true that launcher makes the management of image clearer and easier.. I donât know about windows but I have to care about as 98% of students uses Pharo on windows... I was thinking of some adjustments: 1) maybe a default/advanced mode on the launcher to show only, as default, Mooc/PBE5/Official distributions. 2) a proper icon name to display in OSâs task bars. When several image are opened, they should have different icons, at least different name when hovering, and not only Pharo. A more general feedback is about cloud drive OSâs (iCloud Drive, Dropbox, â¦). I have 3 macâs (pro and personal). I put often files in a directory that are synchronized across these devices. - sometimes I get a message that an image are in different states - sync image might be long (+changes) depending on network conditions I think the question is important as the launcher download in the Document folder (OSX) and this directory is synchronized by default. What do you think about such common situation ? What are your common practices ? - lets says on two Macs and works on both - or I use a dropbox folder => cloud drive are cool and my impression is that we could take a better advantage of them for data that could be shared between (personal) images (Play-Cache ? Packages-cache ? ⦠) ==> would it be possible to have several files for one image (chunked over time so only the last chunk is modified and then less file would be synchronized) - (I donât know at all if possible) ? ==> same for changes⦠but this one should be easier I think. => I also find longer to share pharo system the old ways - zipping (or not) via USB - I think git integration produces a large number of files that relies slows down system copy paste (if only image this is ok)⦠My 2 cents, Cédrick PS: my experiments to make students use Pharo are very cool⦠I need to adjust my presentations/lecture but already I think I succeeded in getting more attraction (and potential results) than what I tried last year with whatever technologies (Python especially). I still use AppInventor and Arduino.cc <http://arduino.cc/>. PS2: I just like what Sean said (but might be frightening at first for newcomers ^^) Pharo all the way down
But just in case we step into the quicksand even further, in this dystopian
future you can just copy paste this definition:
Pharo is a Pharo app that manages Pharo images, which can be used to make
Pharo apps, which can be used to manage Pharo images, [which can be used to
make Pharo apps, which can be used to manage Pharo images]*
Haha, yes it is so fluid it cannot be described only be experienced through prolonged exposure, it is truly magical.
Actually, that is not so far from the truth.
