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Sean P. DeNigris

New Image Command Line Handlers

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We (Cami, Ben, and I) added some command line options to control preference loading, which seem useful e.g. for integrators and in my original use case of running an image off a USB stick on a foreign computer and not wanting to pick up those preferences

There are two new flags:
1. --no-default-preferences = don't load from any of the default locations
2. --preference-file [/full/path/to/file.st] = load this one

They are independent, so there are four options now:
1 | 2 |
- current behavior
x - don't load any preferences
x - load the defaults and this additional
x x - only load the specified file (not the defaults)

Cheers,
Sean

philippeback

Re: New Image Command Line Handlers

Good news.

If by default on Windows, it would be another default than pharo\ it would be great as it would be nicer with zeroconf fetching pharo-ui and pharo (headless)

Are those changes going to find their way in Pharo 2.0?

Phil

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Sean P. DeNigris <[hidden email]> wrote:

We (Cami, Ben, and I) added some command line options to control preference
loading, which seem useful e.g. for integrators and in my original use case
of running an image off a USB stick on a foreign computer and not wanting to
pick up those preferences

There are two new flags:
1. --no-default-preferences = don't load from any of the default locations
2. --preference-file [/full/path/to/file.st] = load this one

They are independent, so there are four options now:
1 | 2 |
- current behavior
x - don't load any preferences
x - load the defaults and this additional
x x - only load the specified file (not the defaults)

-----
Cheers,
Sean
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Stéphane Ducasse

Re: New Image Command Line Handlers

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excellent I will update the StartUp script chapter (except if somebody wants to do it).

On Oct 10, 2013, at 7:48 PM, "Sean P. DeNigris" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> We (Cami, Ben, and I) added some command line options to control preference
> loading, which seem useful e.g. for integrators and in my original use case
>
>
>
> -----
> Cheers,
> Sean
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>

Sean P. DeNigris

Re: New Image Command Line Handlers

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It doesn't really fit our "backport bug fixes only" policy. When I backported the completion stuff because it was too cool not to, it was a week-long hassle chasing collateral bugs. But what I've been doing for these types of things is merging into the released version, saving the packages online, and customizing my own images with them. It's been working pretty well since the released versions don't change very much.

HTH

-------- Original message --------
From: "philippeback [via Smalltalk]" <[hidden email]>
Date: 10/10/2013 2:10 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: "Sean P. DeNigris" <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: New Image Command Line Handlers

Good news.

If by default on Windows, it would be another default than pharo\ it would be great as it would be nicer with zeroconf fetching pharo-ui and pharo (headless)

Are those changes going to find their way in Pharo 2.0?

Phil

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Sean P. DeNigris <[hidden email]> wrote:

We (Cami, Ben, and I) added some command line options to control preference
loading, which seem useful e.g. for integrators and in my original use case
of running an image off a USB stick on a foreign computer and not wanting to
pick up those preferences

There are two new flags:
1. --no-default-preferences = don't load from any of the default locations
2. --preference-file [/full/path/to/file.st] = load this one

They are independent, so there are four options now:
1 | 2 |
- current behavior
x - don't load any preferences
x - load the defaults and this additional
x x - only load the specified file (not the defaults)

-----
Cheers,
Sean
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Tudor Girba-2

Re: New Image Command Line Handlers

This is great. However, I vote against backporting to Pharo 2.0. Pharo 3.0 is close to be frozen and I think the efforts should be focused on that right now.

Doru

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Sean P. DeNigris <[hidden email]> wrote:

It doesn't really fit our "backport bug fixes only" policy. When I backported the completion stuff because it was too cool not to, it was a week-long hassle chasing collateral bugs. But what I've been doing for these types of things is merging into the released version, saving the packages online, and customizing my own images with them. It's been working pretty well since the released versions don't change very much.

HTH

-------- Original message --------
From: "philippeback [via Smalltalk]" <[hidden email]>
Date: 10/10/2013 2:10 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: "Sean P. DeNigris" <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: New Image Command Line Handlers

Good news.

If by default on Windows, it would be another default than pharo\ it would be great as it would be nicer with zeroconf fetching pharo-ui and pharo (headless)

Are those changes going to find their way in Pharo 2.0?

Phil

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Sean P. DeNigris <[hidden email]> wrote:

We (Cami, Ben, and I) added some command line options to control preference
loading, which seem useful e.g. for integrators and in my original use case
of running an image off a USB stick on a foreign computer and not wanting to
pick up those preferences

There are two new flags:
1. --no-default-preferences = don't load from any of the default locations
2. --preference-file [/full/path/to/file.st] = load this one

They are independent, so there are four options now:
1 | 2 |
- current behavior
x - don't load any preferences
x - load the defaults and this additional
x x - only load the specified file (not the defaults)

-----
Cheers,
Sean
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Sean P. DeNigris

Re: New Image Command Line Handlers

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philippeback wrote

Are those changes going to find their way in Pharo 2.0?

If you need them, you can try to load the Backport-Pharo-Issue-11571-to-20 package from http://ss3.gemstone.com/ss/PharoSpd.

Two caveats:
1. there is a post-load doit
2. I haven't tested the changes in 2.0

HTH

Cheers,
Sean