[Pharo-Launcher] call for tests on Windows
Hi, Regarding the various problems Pharo Launchers had on Windows, we worked on a new installer based on Advanced Installer [1] to avoid UAC (User Account Control) and write permissions problems. This new installer now installs Pharo Launcher in the userâs local app data folder (where for sure, he has write permissions). Pharo Launcher also now have its own icon and use its own name instead of Pharo. Also, the uninstaller now works as expected. Last but not least, the installer is now signed to avoid warning of Windows Defender. Thanks to Ben Coman who did the first version of the packaging using Advanced Installer (was NSIS). This version should also improve the launch of Pharo images on Windows. So, please could you install and test this new version: and report any problem with it? http://files.pharo.org/pharo-launcher/win-alpha/ We do not have windows users around so itâs hard to know if it works outside our tests boxes. Thanks, Christophe [1] https://www.advancedinstaller.com/
I ran the launcher against my Windows 7 office computer and have created an issue with my feedback. https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher/issues/93 On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 7:13 AM, Christophe Demarey < christophe.demarey@inria.fr> wrote:
Hi,
Regarding the various problems Pharo Launchers had on Windows, we worked on a new installer based on Advanced Installer [1] to avoid UAC (User Account Control) and write permissions problems. This new installer now installs Pharo Launcher in the userâs local app data folder (where for sure, he has write permissions). Pharo Launcher also now have its own icon and use its own name instead of Pharo. Also, the uninstaller now works as expected. Last but not least, the installer is now signed to avoid warning of Windows Defender. Thanks to Ben Coman who did the first version of the packaging using Advanced Installer (was NSIS). This version should also improve the launch of Pharo images on Windows.
So, please could you install and test this new version: and report any problem with it? http://files.pharo.org/pharo-launcher/win-alpha/ We do not have windows users around so itâs hard to know if it works outside our tests boxes.
Thanks, Christophe
The good news is that the same version of Pharo Launcher worked essentially perfectly under Windows 10. As expected, the launcher was installed in AppData\Local. However, I continue to find an AppData\Roaming\pharo directory created when the launcher was installed. Its contents are as I described in the issue created for the Windows 7 installation. Suggestion: Some of the lists are quite long. It might be useful to be able to sort them by e.g. name or date of last change, both ascending and descending. On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 9:54 AM, Richard Sargent < richard.sargent@gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
I ran the launcher against my Windows 7 office computer and have created an issue with my feedback. https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher/issues/93
On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 7:13 AM, Christophe Demarey < christophe.demarey@inria.fr> wrote:
Hi,
Regarding the various problems Pharo Launchers had on Windows, we worked on a new installer based on Advanced Installer [1] to avoid UAC (User Account Control) and write permissions problems. This new installer now installs Pharo Launcher in the userâs local app data folder (where for sure, he has write permissions). Pharo Launcher also now have its own icon and use its own name instead of Pharo. Also, the uninstaller now works as expected. Last but not least, the installer is now signed to avoid warning of Windows Defender. Thanks to Ben Coman who did the first version of the packaging using Advanced Installer (was NSIS). This version should also improve the launch of Pharo images on Windows.
So, please could you install and test this new version: and report any problem with it? http://files.pharo.org/pharo-launcher/win-alpha/ We do not have windows users around so itâs hard to know if it works outside our tests boxes.
Thanks, Christophe
Microsoft allows devs to download VMs for Windows 7, 8, & 10 that work with VirtualBox, Vagrant, VmWare, Parallels, & HyperV here: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/ They last 90 days and you can install Pharo on them. Their real purpose is to test websites on IE. demarey wrote
Hi,
Regarding the various problems Pharo Launchers had on Windows, we worked on a new installer based on Advanced Installer [1] to avoid UAC (User Account Control) and write permissions problems. This new installer now installs Pharo Launcher in the userâs local app data folder (where for sure, he has write permissions). Pharo Launcher also now have its own icon and use its own name instead of Pharo. Also, the uninstaller now works as expected. Last but not least, the installer is now signed to avoid warning of Windows Defender. Thanks to Ben Coman who did the first version of the packaging using Advanced Installer (was NSIS). This version should also improve the launch of Pharo images on Windows.
So, please could you install and test this new version: and report any problem with it? http://files.pharo.org/pharo-launcher/win-alpha/ We do not have windows users around so itâs hard to know if it works outside our tests boxes.
Thanks, Christophe
-- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
On 16/04/2018 11:13, Christophe Demarey wrote:
So, please could you install and test this new version: and report any problem with it? http://files.pharo.org/pharo-launcher/win-alpha/
I'm downloading it, but something is wrong with that fileserver, it's downloading at veeeery slow speeds. Can't we use something like AWS S3 to store the files of files.pharo.org?
We do not have windows users around so itâs hard to know if it works outside our tests boxes.
Once it finishes I'll let you know. I'm one the few out there still using Windows 7 Pro. Regards, -- Esteban A. Maringolo
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