tiny survey: who uses Pharo Launcher?
Hi, We want to know a bit more about Pharo Launcher, so please, answer this three points if you are using it: 1) which platform are you using? 2) is the experience satisfactory/easy enough? 3) do you have some feedback for us (bah, for Damien :P)? thanks, Esteban
1) I am using it on Windows 7 , Macos 10.7 , Macos 10.9 and I was also using it on Ubuntu 13.12 that is no longer supported so I dont use it there anymore. 2) I am very happy with it, simple enough and gets the job done 3) I don't like the idea that I can no longer run it on my Ubuntu. I also dont like that it freezes any action while downloading the image , for example when the servers were down instead of returning a "server not found" it was infinitely frozen on downloading and had to force quit it . It would be nice if images came with some form of description for those not familiar with them and maybe a time stamp. I wish python and other languages had something similar , I am big fan of PharoLauncher I would like some form of documentation, I tried several times to understand the code but could not figure out how it works which made it very hard for me to contribute ( I had contributed already the loading bars for it). My intention was to help out into making it accessible through CLI. I have to confess I only spent a couple of hours into reading the code in total and then I gave up. On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com>wrote:
Hi, We want to know a bit more about Pharo Launcher, so please, answer this three points if you are using it:
1) which platform are you using? 2) is the experience satisfactory/easy enough? 3) do you have some feedback for us (bah, for Damien :P)?
thanks, Esteban
Hi Esteban, I use only Pharo Launcher for several months: 1/ ArchLinux, 64 bits 2/ Yes, great improvement in managing images 3/ Suggestions: - show created & last opened date for existing images. Option to sort by date or alphabetically - add a comment field for existing images so I could remember why I have this image - add a search field for templates & existing images - bookmark some templates (I often download Seaside or Phratch, tired to scroll down) - get the descriptions of the jenkins jobs to know what each template is about - notification that a new version of PharoLauncher is available - manage common preferences in PharoLauncher: - shared package-cache - prepare each new image with a set of Metacello configuration & preferences Laurent Le samedi 19 avril 2014, 14:32:18 Esteban Lorenzano a écrit :
Hi, We want to know a bit more about Pharo Launcher, so please, answer this three points if you are using it:
1) which platform are you using? 2) is the experience satisfactory/easy enough? 3) do you have some feedback for us (bah, for Damien :P)?
thanks, Esteban
I use it, and like it very much (win7). I discovered that that the startup time of the launcher is not as instantaneous as the normal one click image was before. I wonder if anyone else experienced this. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/tiny-survey-who-uses-Pharo-Launcher-tp4755402p4755451.... Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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Attila Magyar -
Ben Coman -
Esteban Lorenzano -
kilon alios -
Laurent Laffont