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Lets you manage your pharo images and download new ones
https://pharo-project.github.io/pharo-launcher/
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Why cannot select more than one template to download/create image? #668

Closed hernanmd closed 4 months ago

hernanmd commented 5 months ago

Any special reason why I couldn't create more than one image from the template list?

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demarey commented 5 months ago

Because you have to provide the image name for each new image. And it is the first time someone ask for this use case.

hernanmd commented 5 months ago

Thanks. I will check if it's easy to do it since AFAIK that would required another button "Download image(s)" next to the "Create image" right? Or to make a contextual menu? What do you think?

demarey commented 5 months ago

IMO, this feature is not a core feature. I even do not have a scenario for it. I would not even add it. Do you have a scenario in mind?

hernanmd commented 5 months ago

IMO, this feature is not a core feature. I even do not have a scenario for it. I would not even add it. Do you have a scenario in mind?

Yes, find offending commits for instance.

There were already a request for it in Pharo Launcher: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher/issues/6 And there is an article expaining the tedious manual labor process: https://thepharo.dev/2020/11/23/bisecting-pharo-versions-to-find-regressions/

It is important to realize that there is more than a single use case for the Pharo Launcher. Many times you want to automate tasks with several images, for example

1) To measure the performance of execution between images over a period of time. 2) Or compare how the size of the images has grown.

I think it is not a big modification (in the UI it would be just a menu button/option and a beMultiselection).

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demarey commented 5 months ago

I already started a bisect feature for Pharo Launcher a few days ago. You will provide it an interval (from build X to build Y) and it will run a script that should evaluate to a boolean. Don't you think it will be enough?

guillep commented 5 months ago

I already started a bisect feature for Pharo Launcher a few days ago. You will provide it an interval (from build X to build Y) and it will run a script that should evaluate to a boolean. Don't you think it will be enough?

Neat! Later you will show me, maybe this could serve as a first step towards an interactive bisect. Some properties to test/assess when bisecting are difficult to express simply in code (e.g., is there a scroll bar in X window after I click on Y?). Anyways, it's not for now, I can continue to do it manually when I have such a case :)

demarey commented 5 months ago

yes, you're right, an interactive bisect would also be needed. I nthis case, you will have to give the ok or ko by yourself

hernanmd commented 5 months ago

I already started a bisect feature for Pharo Launcher a few days ago. You will provide it an interval (from build X to build Y) and it will run a script that should evaluate to a boolean. Don't you think it will be enough?

That would be really nice. Please let us know which branch you're working on, or if you want to show us a demo/video, etc.

demarey commented 4 months ago

Interactive bisect is now implemented in 56b7b79cd38bd68ed573c991df7bfdbf053dce7d. I will close this issue.