On Aug 6, 2011, at 5:17 PM, Damien Pollet wrote:
> On 6 August 2011 14:36, Sean P. DeNigris <[email protected]> wrote:
>> What is the status of Coral? Is it usable? Thanks.
>
> The syntax / compiler extension works fine and should not require much
> changes.
>
> All examples work for me, but it still depends too much on what flavor
> of the VM you have and is only tested on Mac. So, I'd say, it's
> useable for early adopters :)
>
> What's currently problematic is properly starting the VM in headless
> mode and passing it command-line arguments. This currently works with
> the Cog Carbon VM, and it should work with the linux VMs as well. I
> don't know about windows.
>
> I'd like to eliminate the generate-and-install-coral.sh step, or
> generate a script that doesn't hardcode paths to the VM and to the
> Coral image, or devise some way to install everything that makes it
> more practical… The problem is, different flavors of the VM don't
> report the same think for the VM/image/current path…
>
> There is a problem with OSProcess on the Cog Cocoa VM.
>
> I also need to check that the proper Filesystem package is installed,
> because the current ConfigurationOfCoral predates Colin's big
> refactoring.
>
> Now, for directions of improvement:
>
> I'm currently writing a (petit)parser for command-line arguments
> inspired by http://rubydoc.info/gems/cri/2.0.2/frames (yup, Smalltalk
> learns from Ruby, for once :)
> This will make it easy to write Coral scripts with options, flags,
> subcommands that respect well-known conventions for unix shell
> commands, properly check argument formats, etc. Eventually this will
> provide enough information to generate man pages, -h --help text, and
> even completion functions for bash and zsh.
cooooool I want to see that.
I like your scripting and admin background this is definitively something I'm
lacking and
this is great that you push coral in that direction.
> We're going to need some way to structure script code. I don't think
> we want an include/require statement to write scripts in several
> files, but there should be a way for a script to depend on code that
> is not in the base Coral image. Maybe loading parcels?
[Gofer new
quiuriohkjhajksh
lkjkljlk
load]
> The Console class provides basic access to ANSI escape sequences but
> this could be refactored. This will be needed for the next steps…
>
> …I want a text-mode inspector and debugger integrated in the REPL.
one step at a time.
Did you check the debugger model Glamour is "using" ?
> I'm
> jealous of Ruby having https://github.com/pry/pry#readme :)
>
> --
> Damien Pollet
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