VM , modules, packages and plugins

> Seeing another thread about "is XYZ plugin there or not" or "what may
> cause prim fail"
> i REALLY suggest that we should stop and think..
> This plugin's usage logic is inherently flawed.. (or i would say outdated)
>
> What i would like to see one day is when i installing new code into
> image, it pops up a message:
> "Your VM missing an XYZ plugin for running this cool code, would you
> like to download and install it? Yes No "
>
> In case of Pharo, we should really start thinking about delivering
> quality grade solutions, not something
> which might work if you properly jump 2 times and whistle 7 times
> while faced North"...
>
> Look at what the practices which become common today in modern
> browsers, and OSes - they updating themselves without a notice
> and just asking you to restart it time to time. Why we cannot do the same?
>

> Le 28/06/2012 00:48, Igor Stasenko a écrit :
>
>> Seeing another thread about "is XYZ plugin there or not" or "what may
>> cause prim fail"
>> i REALLY suggest that we should stop and think..
>> This plugin's usage logic is inherently flawed.. (or i would say outdated)
>>
>> What i would like to see one day is when i installing new code into
>> image, it pops up a message:
>> "Your VM missing an XYZ plugin for running this cool code, would you
>> like to download and install it? Yes No "
>>
>> In case of Pharo, we should really start thinking about delivering
>> quality grade solutions, not something
>> which might work if you properly jump 2 times and whistle 7 times
>> while faced North"...
>>
>> Look at what the practices which become common today in modern
>> browsers, and OSes - they updating themselves without a notice
>> and just asking you to restart it time to time. Why we cannot do the same?
>>
>
> What about using something existing, user-level (for Unix/linux and OSX
> guys) such as 0install ? I'm using it for part of my desktop and it does the
> update/search dependencies/compile if needed. I don't think making Pharo
> plugins and VM available in the 0install system would be hard.
>
> http://0install.net/
>
> (and it would work in allmost as many platform as Pharo does).
>
> It would only require some space to host the feeds and the files.
>

>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: [hidden email] [[hidden email]] on behalf of Igor Stasenko [[hidden email]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 6:48 PM
> To: Pharo Development
> Subject: [Pharo-project] VM , modules, packages and plugins
>
> Seeing another thread about "is XYZ plugin there or not" or "what may
> cause prim fail"
> i REALLY suggest that we should stop and think..
> This plugin's usage logic is inherently flawed.. (or i would say outdated)
>
> What i would like to see one day is when i installing new code into
> image, it pops up a message:
> "Your VM missing an XYZ plugin for running this cool code, would you
> like to download and install it? Yes No "
>
> In case of Pharo, we should really start thinking about delivering
> quality grade solutions, not something
> which might work if you properly jump 2 times and whistle 7 times
> while faced North"...
>
> Look at what the practices which become common today in modern
> browsers, and OSes - they updating themselves without a notice
> and just asking you to restart it time to time. Why we cannot do the same?
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko.
>
>