Posted by Sven Van Caekenberghe-2 on Apr 30, 2019; 6:48am
URL: https://forum.world.st/Why-doesn-t-the-VM-command-line-help-show-the-useful-image-commands-anymore-tp5098779p5098786.html



> On 30 Apr 2019, at 00:05, Tim Mackinnon <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> I was asked a question about starting pharo exercism from the command line on Arch linux - seems the Pharo.image file isn’t being found (but it was installed with AUR, which I am unfamiliar with).
>
> Anyway - I tried using the command line on OSX ( I noticed they had used pharo, and not pharo-ui — which I never understood: why is it not pharo for ui and pharo-cmd for terminal, as it burns most people?) - and typed “pharo —help”, and you get an impressive long list of commands - however it doesn’t show you the useful Image commands anymore? So you would never know to use “pharo Pharo.image —list”.
>
> A while back it showed you that - but its now gone which seems a shame?

I don't believe that it ever worked that way: as it is now the VM can only answer for his part, while the commands that are handled by the image can only document themselves.

Yes, this could be improved.

The pharo-ui vs pharo depends on your standpoint: I like the shorter one for the command line.

We should not rename them, by join them, if that would be possible.  

> I also notice at the bottom of the list, its says the the image name defaults to Pharo.image - however I haven’t noticed that works at all - you have to specify an image, so thats a bit misleading.
>
> Tim
>
>