On 2013-05-26, at 15:45, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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

I took care of that in UI mode it 
- doesn't print anything on the command line
- continues running
and in headless mode
- it prints --help
- it quits unless there is --no-quit

> - the -no-quit option is useful in the eval case as well to start a 
> server/service

added that as well in the same refactoring.

Maybe you can have a look at it?
https://pharo.fogbugz.com/default.asp?10759 with its proper SLICE in the inbox.

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