> On 18 Apr 2020, at 10:40, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.duca...@inria.fr> wrote:
>
> Super cool
> Thanks a lot christophe for your effort.
> PharoLauncher changes our life.
+10
> S.
>
>> On 17 Apr 2020, at 18:08, Christophe Demarey <christophe.dema...@inria.fr>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Pharo Launcher 2.0 has just been released! It is available from
>> http://pharo.org/download.
>>
>> This new version introduces major changes:
>> • The UI has been fully rewritten using the new Spec2 framework and the
>> Commander2 library. UI has been revamped to increase usability, especially
>> for newcomers. The main window is now composed of a toolbar and the list of
>> images. The template list is now available when clicking on the new image
>> button.
>> • Documentation web site : All Pharo Launcher features are now
>> explained in the new documentation available at
>> https://pharo-project.github.io/pharo-launcher. You can contribute easily by
>> clicking the *edit on GitHub* button.
>> • You can now have many launch configurations for an image (VM to use,
>> vm and image arguments). It means you can use headless Pharo VM from Pharo
>> Launcher.
>> • When creating a new image, you can specify an initialisation script
>> that will be run once at the first image launch. It is useful to load your
>> project code in a stock Pharo image for example. See
>> https://pharo-project.github.io/pharo-launcher/create-images/#image-initialization-script
>> • You can now define your own template sources in addition to official
>> sources (see
>> https://pharo-project.github.io/pharo-launcher/templates/#create-your-own-list-of-template-categories),
>> including authenticated sources.
>> • Improved image metadata. Pharo Launcher now manages all image
>> metadata in a single STON file (including description, Pharo version).
>>
>> Big thanks to all contributors, including issue reports. It is also the
>> opportunity to thanks Damien Cassou, the original author of Pharo Launcher.
>>
>> Here is the changelog:
>> Pharo Launcher v2.0
>>
>> The list of closed issue is too long (68) to be listed but you can browse it
>> here:
>> https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed+closed%3A2019-07-09..2020-04-17
>> Here are some highlights:
>> New features:
>>
>> • Documentation web site
>> • Image initialisation script
>> • Launch configurations, headless VM support
>> • User template file in addition to the official template file
>> • Jenkins server template now support pipeline projects
>> • Support of private Jenkins server
>> • Support of authenticated HTTP server
>> Improvements:
>>
>> • Monitoring of image launch failures to give back the error message
>> (if any)
>> • Newly created image is automatically selected in the image list
>> • Allow to set image description at creation time
>> • Better error management (you will have the choice to ignore them or
>> debug them)
>> • Add a poor version column in image list
>> • Speedup (especially when image repository has a lot of images)
>>
>> Bug fixes:
>>
>> • Fix use of system unzip on Windows
>>
>> Regards,
>> The Pharo team.
>
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