On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Marcus Denker <denker@acm.org> wrote:
On Nov 17, 2009, at 8:49 AM, Michael van der Gulik wrote:
Hi.
Here's some feedback for Pharo. I've been using Squeak 3.10, but because I want to use the NewCompiler, I'm going to move development of SecureSqueak to Pharo.
I go to http://pharo.org/. Woops. He he. I find my way to the Pharo home page.
Getting Pharo up and running could be a lot easier; I'm using Ubuntu Linux, and I got it up and running quickly because I've a fairly experienced Squeak developer. If I was less familiar with image files and VMs, I would be lost and probably give up.
I recommend making the release for each platform one large .zip file containing the images, sources and VM. This will reduce confusion, and if you put the executable in the root directory of the zip file, most people will easily be able to work it out.
The idea was to move to single-click images for beginners. See
http://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/23260/Pharo1.0-10440-BETAdev09.09ONE...
for an example.
For the rest, yes... sadly there are only 24h in the day....
Please add bug reports for all suggestions:
Okay. I'll fill out bug reports for what I consider to be real issues. I think that presentation should have a high priority. You want your "product" to appeal to new users well out of the box. It's difficult to tell how many people download Pharo, try it, can't get it working or get it working and can't understand it, and then discard it. Gulik. -- http://gulik.pbwiki.com/