Re: Revamped runtime vs. Version number

On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:

> So there's been nothing but positive feedback about the PoC revamped
> runtime I asked folks on the lists to test. Thank you to everyone that did
> so.
>
> With that in mind, I think we should use that in the next version and
> moving forwards, and bump the version number to 3.0 for the next release.
> Does anyone object to that plan?
>

+1

Is there anything that needs to be done to move this from PoC code we can
help with?

-- Rob

>
> FYI, since the original PoC, I've made the following additional changes:
>
> - Move to using a shared memory interlock to ensure only a single instance
> (per user, per copy of the executable) is run. This means if you have
> multiple copies of pgAdmin installed, they won't interact with each other,
> but a single copy is limited to a single instance per user.
>
> - Add a log viewer. If startup fails (or other errors occur), the Python
> logs can now easily be viewed in the runtime.
>
> - Tidied up the configuration dialogue.
>
> - Added a config option to allow an alternate command to be run rather
> than executing the default browser. This allows any browser to be
> configured, using different profiles etc, as possible when launching on the
> command line.
>
> - Made startup more robust so config options can be corrected without
> restarts if needed, and failures can be detected much more quickly.
>
> - Cleaned up a bunch of redundant code.
>
> --
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