Still there are three basic things I miss hardly in a unified way
from the out of the box PHARO/ PHARO VM for the standard platforms (Unix, Win,
Mac):
1. ability to execute another process (to start another executable process
either asynchronous or blocking until the external process is finished)
2. ability to open a browser on a URL
3. Query for the native platform HTTP/HTTPs proxy settings (if there is one)
so Zinc and others work behind a proxy.
Situation hasnt improved on this side compared to Squeak/Squeak VM times (which
also
did not provide something like this).
I know there is OSProcess, FFI, NB, and my OS-... packages and anyone could
roll their own.
But I would like to see this included BY DEFAULT in an easy and uniform way:
either in
the VM or default image even when on exotic platforms it returns
ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE.
Any comments?
Thanks
T.
