Fwd: First try of Pharo

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> Hi Torsten, thanks for the quick response! I think that, since I didn't
> have much time to write, I couldn't explain myself in the previous mail.
> So, here is my second try :). I really like the goals of Pharo and I
> wish that it becomes a professional St open source solution. I have
> historically worked with VW and could never get used to Squeak, yet I
> would love to work with something like pharo in the future. So, the aim
> of my mail was more to portrait the experience of someone saying "I've
> been hearing about Pharo, let's give it a try".
> So I went into the page, download section and got the pharo 09.06.01
> image (with seaside and pier) and the corresponding vm for my platform.
> My feeling is that if I just wanted to get a taste of Pharo I would just
> say that I got an error message and that the environment was very slow
> and I think this is really a pity. Of course I'm not working too hard
> here and I know the project hasn't reach the 1.0 version, but in some
> cases (and this is more a personal appreciation) you got only one shot
> to attract people to your product and if this was the only shot for
> pharo I would have dismissed it.
> As you said, the first issue is extremely simple to solve and it is
> really frustrating that the first thing you see when trying a new piece
> of software is an error message. After you mentioned it in the mail, I
> realized that the sources where in the page, however the first time I
> saw the page I associated them with the /VM/ sources files, since it is
> an open source project and the title of the section is "Source file"
> (which I misread as "Source Files", hence the confusion). Regarding the
> one-click image I think it is a great idea and I think it would be great
> to include that in the download page of the project together with the
> other files. That would make the newcommers life easier.
> I'm on my linux box now, so as soon as I'm on the other machine and get
> some air I'll try the one-click image and tell you how it went.
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> HTH,
> Andrés
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> Torsten Bergmann escribió:
> > Andres wrote:
> >> Starting the image would give the error attached in the  
> >> screenshot. I tried moving the image to be in the same folder as the  
> >> VM with no luck.
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> > The *.source file is missing. Download the file from [1] and
> > extract it where the VM is located.
> >
> > You can also use the prepackaged Installer for Windows (containing
> > anything you need, so pharo shows up in the start menu) - see [2]
> > to download the setup.exe
> >
> >
> > Use this and tell us how it goes.
> > Take care: your files with the *.image extension are still associated
> > with the other VM that you installed.
> >
> > Bye
> > Torsten
> >
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> > [1] http://pharo-project.org/download
> > [2]
> https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/22410/setup_pharo_0.0.0.3.exe
> > [3]
> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/pharo-project/2009-June/009617.html