pharo-launcher icon indicating copy to clipboard operation
pharo-launcher copied to clipboard

Have the update status of each VM in the VM list view

Open labordep opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

My requests are about this panel:

image

When I select a VM and I click on "Update" button, the column "Last update" changed. image || V image

But the problem is: I doesn't know if this action have really updated my VM or not, because each time then I click the update button, the time in the column is changed.

The second time:

image || V image

The user can believe that the VM is up to date, or this is not the case, I think that this column represent just when the user have used the "Update" button for the last time.

I need to know theses informations:

  • What are my loaded VM? => already available (first column "name")
  • What is my VM version? Not only 110x64 but for example 110.0.1x64 or a date => available in part with the "Download URL" column, if you read that you have a status (.i.e "stable" but not a real version and date)
  • What is my VM old? This is the latest time of downloaded the VM, this is cool when you want to know if this is time to see if there is an update of the VM.
  • For me, the actual displayed time is not usefull

:)

labordep avatar Aug 31 '23 09:08 labordep

I add a suggestion : this should be cool to select VM version as an advanced feature. For example in my project have a old image, I update the VM and my image cannot start (may be a crash due to the VM version). With this fonctionnality I will change the VM version to re load a previous version to start my image.

labordep avatar Oct 01 '23 09:10 labordep

@demarey I confirm my use-case: actually I have an application A running on a old Pharo image which is working only with an old specific VM version. And additionaly I have an application B on latest Pharo image with latest VM.

labordep avatar Jan 26 '24 11:01 labordep