I would guess the problem with doing this pervasively is (IIUC) that Configurations are self-contained/self-bootstrapping so each Configurationhas its own copy of #load (I've no access to an Image to check right now) Perhaps it could be a use case for metalinks. When Configurations are loaded, insert a #notify: at the end of certain api methods. cheers -ben On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 4:50 AM, Stephane Ducasse <stepharo.self@gmail.com> wrote:
Agreed!
On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 9:42 PM, Jan BlizniÄenko <bliznjan@fit.cvut.cz> wrote:
Hello
I have never paid any attention to following thing, but now I use Pharo to teach students object oriented programming and there is one thing that I realized how very bad is from user experience perspective: When I am loading package with lots of dependencies, like Moose or Seaside, it may take multiple minutes (especially on Windows) and those loading bars are there half of a time, but half of a time there is nothing, just nothing - it looks like finished, but it is in fact still loading and everything is therefore sluggish. If I was not sure it is in actually still loading just fine, I would try to kill the process and try again. Example which causes such loading without much of UI is this one:
Gofer it smalltalkhubUser: 'zeroflag' project: 'Teapot'; configuration; loadStable. Metacello new repository: 'http://www.smalltalkhub.com/mc/Seaside/MetacelloConfigurations/main'; configuration: 'Seaside3'; version: #'release3.2'; load: #('OneClick').
It would be nice to have some loading bar or something like "loading packages, please wait..." there at all times until baseline/configuration loading is completely done... also some confirming message like "ConfigurationOfSeaside3 loaded successfully" would be nice
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