Nice initiative ! There was already something similar done by a korean guy: HwaJong Oh (https://twitter.com/Daliot ) called Pharo Launcher that works only for mac os x.
Regards, On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Damien Cassou <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the idea to have a Pharo launcher that lets the user pick a > Pharo template (either bare pharo 2.0, pharo+seaside, > pharo+seaside+mongodb+ > magritte+voyage, pharo+pier, ...) and then create > a new image the user must save somewhere is important. I want people > to have one Pharo icon on their desk and just click it (like in > Eclipse, word processors, virtual box...). Here is a set of > requirements for such an application, please comment. > > - must be implemented in Pharo 2.0 with maintained technology (spec or > glamour) > - must be cross-platform (we want 1 application for all Pharo users) > - must download the list of templates from internet (so that we don't > have to update the application all the time) > - must propose different kinds of template (stable/unstable, desktop/web) > - must rapidly create an image out of the selected template (either by > downloading Fueled packages, or by downloading ready-made images) > - must cache the created images so that they do not have to be > recreated all the time (except when a newer version is available) > - must force the user to copy the created image so he can freely > change it and crash it without impacting the cache of created images. > - must present a list of recently launched images so that the user can > just pick a recent image instead of creating a new one > > > Please comment (and implement this idea) > > -- > Damien Cassou > http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st > > "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without > losing enthusiasm." > Winston Churchill > -- Serge Stinckwich UCBN & UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC) Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk http://www.doesnotunderstand.org/
