Is Pharo Launcher Ready?

> Right
> now, our installation options are a bit scattered. The Ubuntu package
> installs Launcher, and the Mac and Windows buttons at
> http://pharo.org/download download image+VM zip files. Should we change the
> ppa to install an image+VM? Or should we change the Mac/Windows buttons to
> download Launcher installers? A possible reservation about the second option
> is that there was a recent report on this list of failed installation on
> Windows 8. Was that ever investigated?
>
> Once we converge on one process, I will update the other GNU/Linux distro
> instructions to mirror that.
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> Sean
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> On 4/13/15 10:01 AM, Sean P. DeNigris wrote:
>> IIUC we are planning on making Pharo Launcher the default download.
> Not sure whether this is the right thread or not...
>
> Keep in mind that the last time I tried to use the Pharo Launcher (a
> couple of months ago) on ubunutu12.04 the Ubuntu packaged failed to be
> found and I had to abandon my use of Pharo Launcher since Ubuntu12.04
> is still in common use ... my desktop at work, travis-ci (the big
> problem for me) and elsewhere ... currently the downloads (outside of
> those that depend upon the Ubuntu package) work just fine on
> ubuntu12.04 (and of course Pharo runs just fine on ubuntu12.04), but
> if the "default download" starts using the Pharo Launcher then those
> of working on ubuntu12.04 will be forced to find alternate solutions
> to downloading Pharo ...
>
> If "default download" is scoped to the be only the newer versions of
> Pharo, like 4.0 or 5.0, then it would be fair to exclude Ubuntu12.04
> from the very convenient download scripts ... otherwise I'd like to
> know right now so I can take defensive actions...like rewriting all of
> my download scripts to use a safe mechanism based on ftp:)
>
> I'm going to have to touch those scripts anyway, because the vmLatest
> url just stopped working one day last week, but I'd really not like to
> have to rewrite my pharo download scripts every 2 months:), so if
> there are plans to summarily drop download support for Ubuntu12.04 in
> the near future, then I'd rather know about that before I touch my
> scripts:)
>
> Dale

> Dale Henrichs <[hidden email]> writes:
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>> On 4/13/15 10:01 AM, Sean P. DeNigris wrote:
>>> IIUC we are planning on making Pharo Launcher the default download.
>> Not sure whether this is the right thread or not...
>>
>> Keep in mind that the last time I tried to use the Pharo Launcher (a
>> couple of months ago) on ubunutu12.04 the Ubuntu packaged failed to be
>> found and I had to abandon my use of Pharo Launcher since Ubuntu12.04 is
>> still in common use ...
> I think Ubuntu 12.04 is supported now. See
> https://launchpad.net/~pharo/+archive/ubuntu/stable?field.series_filter=precise
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> Thanks Damien, I will give it a go when I get a chance ... because it
> broke about 2 months ago and my mail to this list went unanswered,
> I've since removed it from my scripts (in an emergency no less,
> because the scripts were failing) and I have become a bit gunshy about
> relying on something that drops from support without warning ....
> Believe me I did not want to learn about `ldd` and the 12.04 pharo
> dependencies, but I had no choice:(
>
> I would like to be able to depend upon the zero conf scripts, because
> they are very convenient, but I am still hazy on the policy towards
> older releases and zero conf.
>
> It would be very convenient if the scripts worked "forever" for the
> old releases (pharo3.0 will be old in a year:) they don't need to be
> kept up to date with respect to the latest vm, but should be frozen at
> the last stable vm for that platform/release ... if that were true
> then I would be comfortable leaning heavily on zero conf for the
> installation/update scripts...if not...

>
> Dale
>
> On 4/16/15 1:52 AM, Damien Cassou wrote:
>> Dale Henrichs <[hidden email]> writes:
>>
>>> On 4/13/15 10:01 AM, Sean P. DeNigris wrote:
>>>> IIUC we are planning on making Pharo Launcher the default download.
>>> Not sure whether this is the right thread or not...
>>>
>>> Keep in mind that the last time I tried to use the Pharo Launcher (a
>>> couple of months ago) on ubunutu12.04 the Ubuntu packaged failed to be
>>> found and I had to abandon my use of Pharo Launcher since
>>> Ubuntu12.04 is
>>> still in common use ...
>> I think Ubuntu 12.04 is supported now. See
>> https://launchpad.net/~pharo/+archive/ubuntu/stable?field.series_filter=precise 
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