> On 14 May 2020, at 23:20, Christophe Demarey <christophe.dema...@inria.fr> > wrote: > > Hi Cédrick, > >> Le 7 mai 2020 à 08:24, Cédrick Béler <cdric...@gmail.com> a écrit : >> >> Hi Christophe, >> >> >> This version is definitely cooler :) > > Thanks > >> I just wander as for the previous version why deleting image can take some >> time, whereas it’s quick to delete the image repository. Is it normal ? > > In Pharo, deleting files is slow because Pharo visits all the files to delete > to check if there are file descriptors opened on these files to close them. > I think it is something that could be improved. In many situations, you know > you do not have descriptors on these files and we could have a method to > delete without doing the check, just the system call, without visiting the > tree.
+ 1 Yes we should introduce a massiveFolder delete. > >> Another thing that might help my way of doing things. I like to "save as" >> the image so as to have a quick check point, and the launcher is not « >> friendly » with renaming as it loads the default image. >> >> Any idea on how to integrate that ? Maybe having a list of images that >> pops-up ? > > For this feature, I have no good idea for now. > I had in mind to use a tree instead of a list of images. You could expand if > there are more than one image and see other images in the folder. > The problem is for the metadata file: we could assume that other images > should use the same metadata as the core image and use them to run the image. > (For now, the metadata filename is the same for all images). > >> I actually changed once the "save as » in a « save checkpoint charly » where >> it saves a copy but still load the default name. Might be an option ? :) > > « Saves a copy » : do you mean you copy the full folder to another name ? > > Cheers, > Christophe -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France
