> > It’s quite a moving target with so many fundamental changes (GIT being one, > Bootstrap another huge one).
I would not call it moving target. The API changes slowly and we deprecate most of them. > But I have the opposite impression (of course I don’t have to maintain a big > project like yours - I wouldn’t say you’re the hobby user :) ). But I really > find P6 more consistent than what I used to try in the past (last squeaks up > to 3.9 and firsts pharo). Me too. > And the bootstrapping of P7 will (I think) finally solve big image issues > (allowing to build cleaner distributions). I believe it will be a huge step > forward. At least for me and especially to convince others to try out Pharo. > I just dream of having a network of small images running and communicating, > eventually accessed and programmed by a larger developper image (with > TelePharo). Yes we want the same. > I haven’t tried the bootstrap yet but sure in the future. It is working already and you can use the Bootstrap. Pavel has been working on providing package and configurations that we can reload. > Plus I have the impression Morphic mess is about to be solved. Well I hope :) > What’s more problematic to me (as I guess for newcomers) is to find the > ‘good’ packages'. For instance, I’m still puzzled when I have to choose > between OSProcess and OSSubprocess (and sometimes depending on loaded > projects, we need both…). People should document their packages and publish them in the meta catalog. We cannot do more. We should publish a package market but we are behind our plans. > >> >> I decided I will not finish porting DrGeo to P6 or P7, and it will likely >> die with P3. >> >> Pharo should have been clean up to the bones before adding. It was the >> initial moto, no? > > I have the (naive) impression that bootstrap will help a lot here, so be > patient ;). Maybe porting to P7/P8 will be more appropriate. > What I would like, is a kind of notation for package to know its state and > usage possibilities. > We see for instance that several I18N exists already (but not 100% integrated > hence this post)... > > My 2 cents, > > Cédrick > > > OT question: Would it be possible in the future to generate a bootstrap image > of a given program from a bigger developer image containing running program > (like if running tests where activating all code dependancies ? … like > tracing usage… I guess this is not trivial at all ! I guess this is > particularly difficult to trace all use cases and as dynamically bound, it > sure must be hard). Yes guille did it with tornado. Now it was experiemental. You will be in better shape to take the miniimage and load what you need. > >> >> >> Le 10/11/2017 à 11:14, Marcus Denker a écrit : >>> It would be nice if someone who uses it would take the lead >>> so we can improve the default that is shipped with Pharo. >> >> -- >> Dr. Geo >> http://drgeo.eu >> >> >> > >
