On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Marcin Tustin
<mm3@zepler.net> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm an occasional squeak/pharo dabbler, and I'm wondering what the recommended way of interacting with external processes is these days?
Should I go through the process of getting all the VMMaker and OSProcess stuff, and build the OSProcess plugin, or is there some other way in Pharo to interact with the OS environment?
Hi. Which OS are you? because I think OSProcess is not working on Windows. And I also think there are binaries for it, so you don't need to generate .c from VMMaker neither compile c code to binary.
But I may be wrong.
CommandShell ?
Maybe using normal FFI or AlienFFI? They will let you invoke shared libraries of the OS from Pharo.
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Alternatively, are people doing something (easy) with IPC mechanisms like named sockets or TCP streams?
The "project" I'm working on is putting figlet on a website, just for fun.
Marcin
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