On 3 January 2012 14:06, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Ben,
yes... to answer full file name is easy... my question is because the VM doesn't do that, and it has an explicit transformation to avoid answer that... then I wonder if that would be on purpose, and why. One thing that comes to my mind is that, in macs, a program is a directory, for example, vm would be: /path/to/Cog.app/, then the real executable is placed inside this directory following a convention: MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/MyApp
So, question is: from mac point of view... which one is the "full path"? /path/to/Cog.app or /path/to/Cog.app/Contents/MacOS/Cog?
i vote for the full path to executable , i.e. /path/to/Cog.app/Contents/MacOS/Cog because you can always strip down unwanted information (just do regexp like '.app/Contents'), while it is much harder to reproduce original information if your source obscures it in that way.
cheers, Esteban
El 03/01/2012, a las 9:54a.m., Ben Coman escribió:
Esteban Lorenzano wrote:
El 02/01/2012, a las 4:39p.m., David T. Lewis escribió:
Real problem then is:
we don't have a way  to get the executable name
or
getSystemAttribute: comment is wrong :)
On a unix VM, it answers the full path to the executable, which is in agreement with the comment. For example:
Smalltalk getSystemAttribute: 0 ==> '/usr/local/lib/squeak/4.7.18-2505/squeakvm'
Maybe is is more complicated for Mac, but wasn't there some discussion about it on vm-dev a while back?
I don't remember :) so, how can we solve this? of course, it is not a problem to make getSystemAttribute: 0 answer argv[0], but that's not the expected behavior... we can be making a mistake, because it should answer vm path, no vm fullName. I can add a 10XX number to answer vm full name, but that will lead to consistency problems inside the image... I really don't know how to proceed :(
Esteban
Esteban, I am not sure of the semantics within Smalltalk, but within both Windows & Linux "full path" includes the filename. Â Examples...
Linux `which` command [1] Â "...printing the full path when used from a script" Â > echo `which q2` Â /home/carlo/bin/q2
Windows Path.GetFullPath method [2] Â "Returns the absolute path for the specified path string." Â // GetFullPath('mydir') returns 'C:\temp\Demo\mydir' Â // GetFullPath('myfile.ext') returns 'C:\temp\Demo\myfile.ext'
From browsing around it does seem harder on OSX to determine the path to the current executable [3,4,5,6] but I'm not qualified to comment.
cheers, Ben
[1] http://linux.die.net/man/1/which [2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.path.getfullpath.aspx [3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/799679/programatically-retrieving-the-abs... [4] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1023306/finding-current-executables-path-... [5] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/933850/how-to-find-the-location-of-the-ex... [6] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3200651/application-path-location-in-ms-w...
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