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Cmd Line Launcher

Hi all,

Pharo Launcher 3.2 has just been released! It is available from http://pharo.org/download.

Pharo Launcher now comes with a command-line version that you can use from a terminal!
You can check the documentation of commands at https://pharo-project.github.io/pharo-launcher/commands-cmd-line/ as well as instructions to make pharo-launcher available on command line: https://pharo-project.github.io/pharo-launcher/installation/.

This nice feature is now available thanks to the contributions of Axel Marlard, David Bajger, and I as well as the support of Damien Pollet for the Clap library.

New features:

Command Line support

• all commands available in the UI version of Pharo Launcher are supported

new commands

• create an image from a Pull Request number (from Pharo repository)
• create an image from a build number, a SHA
• create an image and import your code from a repository
• share easily an image (zip file with the Pharo image, the VM to run it and a launch script)
• find easily the Pharo version where a bug was introduced with image bisect algorithm
• launch an image with a script
• list running Pharo processes

When creating an image, the image is now launched automatically.
The CI moved to Github Actions

Improvements:

• Better Mac OS system menu
• Do not try to guess anymore the version of a Pharo image if information not available but rather ask the user
• When deleting more than 1 image at a time the message is not clear #594

Bug fixes:

• Pharo 12.0 build list incomplete #667
• Use "Show" when no image is downloaded yet gives error #570 (thanks to @astares)
• Development mode does not close pharoLauncher application #548
• Using "Show in folder" gives DNU #568 (thanks to @astares)
• Launcher cannot launch Pharo-4.0 image #585

Regards,
The Pharo team.