Hi Camillo,

On 26 May 2013, at 13:57, Camillo Bruni <[email protected]> wrote:

> Currently Pharo runs without a message when started in headless mode:
> 
> ./pharo Pharo.image
> 
> However I would expect it to give a feedback, so it would behave like this:
> 
> ./pharo Pharo.image --help
> 
> AFAIK seaside doesn't have a command line handler yet ;), but how would you 
> guys
> perceive it if
> 
> - there is a a help message printed,
> - the image stops if there are no commands provided?
> 
> We can add a --no-quit option to the default command line handler so the image
> continues running with whatever service there is.

Yes, but

- it might be a bit confusing since a normal image with GUI is started like in 
the first cmd line
- tools that don't print needless information are cool
- the -no-quit option is useful in the eval case as well to start a 
server/service

Sven 


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