<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>I speak on behalf of the users that don't know what they want, and if they knew, they wouldn't know how to express it :P.<br><br></div>I looked into what asdf-vm does for VM-hosted languages like Erlang, Java, and the like. For Java when you type `asdf install java ` and press TAB you get a combination of java distributions and versions of the form <distribution>-<version number>, E.g. “corretto-21.0.1”, “temurin-jre-21.0.1+12.0.LTS”, “graalvm-community-22.3.3+java17”, and so on; not really what we need. I guess that the best experience in this regard is currently provided by the <a href="https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher">Pharo Launcher</a>. Maybe I (we?) can take a look and see if it is hackable to the point that we can benefit from forking it?<br><br>-- <br></div><div>Eze<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 21 Dec 2023 at 13:52, Juan Vuletich <<a href="mailto:juan@cuis.st">juan@cuis.st</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>

  
    
  
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    Hi Ezequiel,<br>
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          <div>Tested on Linux and also with a Docker container. All
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    Thanks for testing!<br>
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          <div>What I'm missing from the current way of handling Cuis
            installs, is the possibility to easily set a default image
            and startup/configuration script directories probably along
            the lines of the <a href="https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html" target="_blank">XDG
              Base directory specification</a> and the equivalent for
            Mac.<br>
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          <div>Btw, lately I became fond of <a href="https://asdf-vm.com/" target="_blank">https://asdf-vm.com/</a> for
            managing multiple runtime versions in general, I didn't give
            it much thought but maybe it could also be an alternative
            way to install Cuis.<br>
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    With this new folder structure and included VMs, the goal is to ease
    the experience for new and casual users, while giving experienced
    users the flexibility they neeed to set up the environment(s) that
    works best for them.<br>
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    What kind of user are you thinking about? What would their setup
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            17:56, Ezequiel Birman <<a href="mailto:ebirman77@gmail.com" target="_blank">ebirman77@gmail.com</a>>
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              <div>Hi Juan. Thanks for the experiments!<br>
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                ❯ CuisVM.app/Contents/MacOS/Squeak
                CuisImage/Cuis6.1.image<br>
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                Runs successfully on my MacBook Air. I'll try the Linux
                script as soon as possible. Let me know if you need me
                to test something in particular.<br>
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              <div>Merry Christmas, Festivus, and new year!<br>
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Juan Vuletich
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<a href="http://independent.academia.edu/JuanVuletich" target="_blank">independent.academia.edu/JuanVuletich</a>
<a href="http://patents.justia.com/inventor/juan-manuel-vuletich" target="_blank">patents.justia.com/inventor/juan-manuel-vuletich</a>
<a href="http://linkedin.com/in/juan-vuletich-75611b3" target="_blank">linkedin.com/in/juan-vuletich-75611b3</a>
<a href="http://twitter.com/JuanVuletich" target="_blank">twitter.com/JuanVuletich</a></pre>
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