On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:24:38PM -0500, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
Dave,
Does that mean that PipeableOSProcess can load w/o MVC support? That would be great!
Yes. The SqS/CommandShell package is split into sub-packages, so you do not need to load CommandShell-MVC if you do not want it. As always, for Squeak images the easiest thing is to just load the latest version of the full OSProcess and CommandShell packages, which are always up to date for Squeak trunk. On Pharo, you may want to skip the MVC package and also load CommandShellPharo if you want menu registration, but otherwise they are the same. The only new information of interest for Squeak is that folks running Cog on Linux should update their OSProcess to the latest version, otherwise OSProcess can crash the VM with X11 protocol errors when attempting a #forkSqueak.
You've just reminded me that there is a Windows plugin - for a long time, I thought it was necessary to use ProcessWrapper there. I don't have much need for piping on Windows, but one never knows when it might surface again. Is there a binary for the plugin? I find the Linux VM wanting in diagnostic feedback, so I end up hacking and building it from source, but the Windows VM seems to just work as-is; I have not needed to build it for a long time. In fairness, I don't ask much of Windows these days, but I do need to target it.
Bill
I think that ProcessWrapper is the best way to go for Windows right now. Dave
________________________________________ From: pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of David T. Lewis [lewis@mail.msen.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 9:44 PM To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: [Pharo-project] OSProcess update (was: [OSProcess] Proposal for Pharo 1.2 compatibility)
To follow up on this, I have now updated both OSProcess and CommandShell to work on Pharo 1.2. I have not yet had a chance to look at the Metacello configurations, but loading the latest versions of OSProcess and CommandShell, and CommandShellPharo from SqueakSource will give the correct configurations. For CommandShell, ignore the MVC warnings on load, or you can load the individual sub-packages from SqueakSource and leave out CommandShell-MVC.
The separate CommandShellPharo package in SqS/CommandShell provides world menu registration for opening a command shell morph on Pharo (open a new command shell morph with world -> Tools -> Command shell). This is in its own package because of the use of pragmas for menu registration, which cannot be loaded into some other Squeak images (e.g. Squeak 3.8 and earlier).
I note that on Pharo: TextStyle named: 'DefaultFixedTextStyle' ==> a TextStyle Accuny12(FontSet) Which seems to be a proportional font rather than fixed, so the font in a CommandShell window is not as nice as it should be.
OSProcess and CommandShell test suites are green on Squeak/Unix VM, but a bit flakey when I run them on Pharo. Issues are timing related, and I cannot say if they are issues in Pharo, CommandShell, or maybe just the way I wrote the tests. But for general use, everything seems to be working now.
When running on Cog, you should expect #forkSqueak to fail, but it will no longer crash the VM as in earlier OSProcess versions. However, #forkSqueak is used extensively in the unit tests for various multiprocessing test setups, which means that the test suites will not run properly. That said, most of the rest of OSProcess and CommandShell should work on Cog.
Most things should work on a Mac VM, although I cannot personally verify. Windows support is incomplete and the plugin is not widely available.
Dave