On 29 Jan 2012, at 21:11, Guillermo Polito wrote:
> I've spent a few hours playing with Alien+FFI and I did want to have a Command line interface to play and use as a quick browser.
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> Gofer it
> � � squeaksource: 'CLInterface';
> � � package: 'ConfigurationOfCLInterface';
> � � load.
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> ConfigurationOfCLInterface load.
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> To play with it write a script, for example startCLI.st, with the following:
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> CLInterface start
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> And then, from the command line
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> CogVM -vm-display-null <image> startCLI.st
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>
> What it does support?
> - executes smalltalk expressions
> - handles the errors and shows them into the stdout (so it does not explode :P)
> - stores variables as a workspace
> Since I used standard C functions (fgets and printf only) this should work on every platform from scratch (having a VM with FFI working, of course)...
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> The problems I've ran so far:
> - blocking FFI blocks the vm. �I've not tried yet to use threads through FFI (and I don't know if it works. �Does it?). �But It should be great to start a headless seaside server with a command line :/.
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> Ok, it's a very simple thing, but it allows to execute a expression from a remote server via ssh without doing much :).
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> Guille