Thanks gabriel. Your mail is important because we should get much much better on that site so please push. We are working (but nothing is ready for public or even private try) on making sure that we can use pharo as a scripting language and the connection with the OS is important. I really think that we should get much better. I hope that the VM will improve from that part. We are really busy from the image side.... If more people would help we could do so much more exciting things.
Stef On Jul 19, 2010, at 9:20 PM, Gabriel Cuvillier wrote: > > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
