We will blog it and tweet it :) Thanks again. Stef On Jan 19, 2013, at 11:21 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
> I would like thank officially Square [i] for this gift to the community. > Thank again. Further work in this direction should be supported by the > association and the consortium. > > Stef > > > On Jan 18, 2013, at 8:14 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote: > >> Hello there, >> >> For a long time, Pharaoers and Squakers have been asking for headless >> support in the Cocoa VMs just as we have with Carbon VMs. Carbon is becoming >> a legacy framework so people needed this. >> >> I wanted to thanks Square [i] International for sponsoring me to implement >> such a support. Not only have they sponsored the development but they have >> also agreed to release it under MIT license for the community. This headless >> support will be included in the official Pharo VM and will be, therefore, >> accessible to everybody. >> >> The project is not yet finished but I do have a demo/prototype that I wanted >> to share with you so that you can test it and give me feedback. This VM >> should only work starting at OSX 10.6. >> >> How to use it? Basically it works this way: to have headless, just edit the >> Info.plist and set the flag LSBackgroundOnly to 1 (add the key if it is not >> present): >> >> <key>LSBackgroundOnly</key> >> <true/> >> >> When doing this, you don't even need the -headless anymore since, setting >> LSBackgroundOnly to 1, will cause the same effect (being the flag almost >> mandatory). If you don't want headless, put it to false or don't even put >> the key. If you don't set LSBackgroundOnly to 1 but send -headless, the VM >> will still be headless but you will see a little flash. If this flash >> bothers you, then set the flag. I am trying to get a way to avoid the >> "flash" while also avoiding to set LSBackgroundOnly to 1, but I still >> couldn't find it. Anyway, I think we can live with the current situation. >> >> How to test it? You should run the image with something like RFB or Seaside >> or whatever you can and then confirm if it is working even if you are >> headless. As a matter of testing, I saved an image with seaside running in >> the port 5555. You can get both, this Seaside image and the VM with headless >> from: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/r7qk49bxywk2xce/6N7-fdyx6V >> So if you run the VM headless with that image and go to localhost:5555, you >> should see that Seaside is running. >> >> I would appreciate if you can test it. And please let me know in which >> version of OSX you tried. Of course, the more of you who can test it, the >> better. Notice that this VM was compiled with LLVM GCC 4.2 and it may have >> some problems in older OSX versions (but I think it shouldn't). I still >> couldn't compile a VM with GNU GCC 4.2 as I get a crash :( >> >> Expected results? In headless mode, anything should be displayed (no >> window, no menu, no item in the dock and nothing appear when switching >> apps). When running headfull, everything should be normal. >> >> Where is the code? The code I have modified to the VM is committed to my own >> fork of the VM: https://gitorious.org/~marianopeck/cogvm/marianopecks-blessed >> Once the code is ready, I will do a pull request so that it can be >> integrated. >> >> Thanks everyone for the testing and feedback. Once again, thanks Square [i] >> International for sponsoring this great feature. Also thanks Esteban >> Lorenzano and Mark Smith for their incredible help. >> >> This was just the first prototype. I will keep you informed about possible >> progress. >> >> Best regards, >> >> -- >> Mariano >> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com > >
