1) which platform are you using?
Windows 7
2) is the experience satisfactory/easy enough?
Love it. Pharo Launcher is fantastic. I can no longer work without it. btw, I use two naming schemes for images.
a. image-build-number-only - I never save changes to these images. I use these to binary search for the first occurrence of a bug, which gives a big hint how to fix it. Usually I can launch an image, open a workspace, paste a script from the system clipboard, evaluate and close the image inside 30 seconds (excluding download of missing builds).
b. 'Case',caseNum,'-',imageBuildNum e.g. Case13204-30487 - every case from the issue tracker that I work on may have several images (eg. build of first occurrence, previous build, latest build)
3) do you have some feedback for us (bah, for Damien :P)?
Some feature suggestions...
a. Be able to add attribute-icons to templates images
b. Using (2a.) remove the "Local" template repository and tag the originating template with a "Local/Downloaded" icon. I often download a recent build and then want to create a new image from the downloaded "Local" template, but forgot to shift up to the "Local" repository and so have to wait through a whole download again. Its not worth canceling the download because the copy in the "Local" repository is being overwritten.
c. Download template to a temporary file, then move to its final location. This would allow an accidental re-download per (2b.) to be canceled, and should also facilitate forking the download.
d. Add folders to the image pane. This would help organize my working scheme per (2b.) - with one folder per Case.
e. Allow images/folders to be set ReadOnly. This would help me from accidentally saving over my fresh "testing" images per (2a.). Read-only images/folders could be tagged with an icon.
More exotic...
f. Automated binary search - define a script to be loaded and evaluated and return a result to Pharo Launcher. From this result, tag that image with a working/broken icon, and determine next build to download and try.
g. Also manage VMs and which VM runs which image. Hook this to work with (3f.)
cheers -ben
Laurent Laffont wrote:
3/ Suggestions:
- show created last opened date for existing images. Option to sort by date or alphabetically
+1 Sometimes I create an new image but must have a typo in the name,
and lose where the new image is created. (I have currently have about
60 images - that probably need to be cleaned up, but disk space is
cheap.)
- add a comment field for existing images so I could remember why I have this image
+1
- add a search field for templates existing images
+1
- 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 crit :
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
