I'll try once more to explain. You like the catalog, don't you ? It was your idea in the first place. With this feature you can just type XML, CSV, JSON or whatever and it will suggest a couple of catalog projects that you can install with just one click, no need to open any tool you don't even know. This is especially good for new people. IT IS A FANTASTIC FEATURE, IT IS THE WAY THINGS SHOULD WORK. It leverages all the work put in the catalog.
Is Spotter or any other part of Pharo perfect ? No. For many people, Spotter make a huge functional difference, we use it every minute. If it would hang or block the image even once a day, any of us would complain loudly. Conclusion: it works for 99% of the people/cases. Even in the 1% where there is a problem, it is not 100% sure it is related to the catalog searching. In the last concrete issue reported, the guy tried disabling the catalog searching AND IT MADE NO DIFFERENCE ! So again, why turn it off ? It is an overreaction, not engineering. The underlying problem is that in some very rare, hard to reproduce cases we cannot reliably detect that there is no network. That's about it. Note also that almost every application or app today will do some network calls, this is how the world work - we should be able to do the same with Pharo, not run away and kill every feature that does a network call. > On 06 Jul 2016, at 18:14, stepharo <[email protected]> wrote: > > Who vote to put it in? > > Seriously I think that my main concern is about getting Pharo stable in any > occasion and not giving > > a bad impression of the system. I takes enough time to build traction and > such glitches can spoil > > our effort in no time. "Yes Pharo froze." > > So it would be nice to care take of such aspect. > > I do not understand why super users do not manage to put a reference to on in > the preferences. > > Sorry esteban but I do not buy your argument that something off is remove. No > it is off. > > Stef >>> On 06 Jul 2016, at 09:52, GitHub <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> 18674 Turn spotter catalog off by default >>> https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/18674 >> We did not agree on this, at all, there was no public discussion, no vote. >> >> > >
