Re: [Pharo-project] 1.3, PBE and lab setups

> I am trying to get our local admins to set up labs so students can use the
> latest Pharo.
>
> Currently we have 1.2 and PBE .image files and by removing the field in the
> INI file that specified the image, if you clicked on Pharo, you'd get a
> dialogue asking which image you wanted.  All of these are on read-only
> mounts, so if you want to save to the image, you need to copy the image to
> your home directory and then you could navigate to that image file on
> startup.  Dropping an image on the executable works fine, though.
>
> Additionally, the PBE book doesn't play well with 1.3 (things that the book
> says die when you try them).  Apparently you can't open the PBE image from
> the 1.3 binary without it crashing, either.
>
> So I have 3 questions:
>
> 1) is 1.3 the system to use, or will 1.4 be stable soon?
>
> 2) is the PBE book getting updated to work with a vanilla 1.3/1.4 image?

> 2011/12/15 Dave Mason <[hidden email]>:
>> I am trying to get our local admins to set up labs so students can use the
>> latest Pharo.
>>
>> Currently we have 1.2 and PBE .image files and by removing the field in the
>> INI file that specified the image, if you clicked on Pharo, you'd get a
>> dialogue asking which image you wanted.  All of these are on read-only
>> mounts, so if you want to save to the image, you need to copy the image to
>> your home directory and then you could navigate to that image file on
>> startup.  Dropping an image on the executable works fine, though.
>>
>> Additionally, the PBE book doesn't play well with 1.3 (things that the book
>> says die when you try them).  Apparently you can't open the PBE image from
>> the 1.3 binary without it crashing, either.
>>
>> So I have 3 questions:
>>
>> 1) is 1.3 the system to use, or will 1.4 be stable soon?
>>
>> 2) is the PBE book getting updated to work with a vanilla 1.3/1.4 image?
>
> There is no plan at the moment to do that, but you could help adapt
> the Pharo Book to the new images.
> All the contents of the book is here:
> https://github.com/SquareBracketAssociates/PharoByExample-english
>
> Maybe we can have branches for each version of Pharo ? pharo1.2,
> pharo1.3, etc …

>
> Regards,
> --
> Serge Stinckwich
> UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC), Hanoi, Vietnam
> Matsuno Laboratory, Kyoto University, Japan (until 12/2011)
> http://www.mechatronics.me.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
> Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk
> http://doesnotunderstand.org/
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> On Dec 15, 2011, at 2:24 AM, Serge Stinckwich wrote:
>
>> 2011/12/15 Dave Mason <[hidden email]>:
>>> I am trying to get our local admins to set up labs so students can use the
>>> latest Pharo.
>>>
>>> Currently we have 1.2 and PBE .image files and by removing the field in the
>>> INI file that specified the image, if you clicked on Pharo, you'd get a
>>> dialogue asking which image you wanted.  All of these are on read-only
>>> mounts, so if you want to save to the image, you need to copy the image to
>>> your home directory and then you could navigate to that image file on
>>> startup.  Dropping an image on the executable works fine, though.
>>>
>>> Additionally, the PBE book doesn't play well with 1.3 (things that the book
>>> says die when you try them).  Apparently you can't open the PBE image from
>>> the 1.3 binary without it crashing, either.
>>>
>>> So I have 3 questions:
>>>
>>> 1) is 1.3 the system to use, or will 1.4 be stable soon?
>>>
>>> 2) is the PBE book getting updated to work with a vanilla 1.3/1.4 image?
>>
>> There is no plan at the moment to do that, but you could help adapt
>> the Pharo Book to the new images.
>> All the contents of the book is here:
>> https://github.com/SquareBracketAssociates/PharoByExample-english
>>
>> Maybe we can have branches for each version of Pharo ? pharo1.2,
>> pharo1.3, etc …
>
> yes this would be really good to have a branch
>
> Stef
>
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Serge Stinckwich
>> UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC), Hanoi, Vietnam
>> Matsuno Laboratory, Kyoto University, Japan (until 12/2011)
>> http://www.mechatronics.me.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
>> Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk
>> http://doesnotunderstand.org/
>>
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