Hello everyone,
I've read several threads about people having problems to launch
external processes from Pharo.
The solutions are well known: either by using ProcessWrapper, or by
using the plugin OSProcess. But the former is Win32 only, and the
latter is supposedly cross platform, but is only included by default on
Linux and OS X... On Win32, the plugin must be built by hand with the
Squeak VM.
For the average user, this is a little bit puzzling. Unless things
operates in a closed sandbox (no files, no sockets, ...), such basic
operation should be included by default and usable in a cross platform
way (even if we are living in an image, no?).
For example, here is my use case: I have several command line tools to
automate tasks on my machine. I intended to learn Pharo/Smalltalk by
building a graphical front-end to these tools (with Morphic) as well as
a Web front-end (with Seaside). But the "system()" message is missing :)
Gabriel.
Note: Maybe it is more a SqueakVM issue. If so, I will post my request
on that mailing list.
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