Awesome! Thanks! On 9 Jul 2019, at 14:28, Pavel Krivanek wrote:
> Hi, > > the current Pharo cannot deal very well in situations when you want to run > multiple instances from one image file, especially on Windows, which > complicates the setup of parallel applications. It is not able to work > reasonably on read-only file-systems too. That's why I did the next attempt > to improve this functionality of the system. > > In summary: > - the image can be executed with --readOnlyMode image argument > - the basic system tries to survive such limitation. The changes file is in > read-only mode and new sources are installed into compiled methods > directly, Ombu does not save content, Playground does not save cache etc. > - PharoDebug.log and placeholder files on Windows are not created > - the limitation is only on image-level so it is easy to bypass it. > - the presence of the old file streams makes everything uglier and messier > > We have an open PR for this issue: > https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/3837 > > Comments and reviews are welcome. > > -- Pavel
