By "download" ... I am referring to the zero conf downloads ... if zero conf downloads are not going to be impacted (again), then "never mind":)

Dale

On 4/13/15 1:28 PM, Dale Henrichs wrote:


On 4/13/15 10:01 AM, Sean P. DeNigris wrote:
IIUC we are planning on making Pharo Launcher the default download.
Not sure whether this is the right thread or not...

Keep in mind that the last time I tried to use the Pharo Launcher (a couple of months ago) on ubunutu12.04 the Ubuntu packaged failed to be found and I had to abandon my use of Pharo Launcher since Ubuntu12.04 is still in common use ... my desktop at work, travis-ci (the big problem for me) and elsewhere ... currently the downloads (outside of those that depend upon the Ubuntu package) work just fine on ubuntu12.04 (and of course Pharo runs just fine on ubuntu12.04), but if the "default download" starts using the Pharo Launcher then those of working on ubuntu12.04 will be forced to find alternate solutions to downloading Pharo ...

If "default download" is scoped to the be only the newer versions of Pharo, like 4.0 or 5.0, then it would be fair to exclude Ubuntu12.04 from the very convenient download scripts ... otherwise I'd like to know right now so I can take defensive actions...like rewriting all of my download scripts to use a safe mechanism based on ftp:)

I'm going to have to touch those scripts anyway, because the vmLatest url just stopped working one day last week, but I'd really not like to have to rewrite my pharo download scripts every 2 months:), so if there are plans to summarily drop download support for Ubuntu12.04 in the near future, then I'd rather know about that before I touch my scripts:)

Dale


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