On Jan 9, 2010, at 7:43 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > Carlos, all, > > Is Alien ready for real use? I am getting closer to being able to produce a > Pharo version of my GSL wrapper and was today reminded of the fairly > extensive use of callbacks in the library - that makes sense, because much of > it is algorithms that need to accept user-provided code. > > My reading suggess that Alien is the way to go. Is it?
I know fernando uses it intensively for opengl calls on mac. > > Bill > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carlos > Crosetti > Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 12:49 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] OSProcess > > Thanks, please can you provide pointers on how to launch a external process > with Alien? > > Regards, Carlos > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David T. Lewis" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 2:26 PM > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] OSProcess > > >> Yes, OSProcess is designed to work on Windows also. However, the >> functionality >> is limited on Windows and the plugin is not distributed with the Windows >> VM, so >> for most people this is not a practical solution. FFI is another >> alternative. >> >> Dave >> >> On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 10:53:30AM -0500, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: >>> Carlos, >>> >>> OSProcess appears to be _designed_ to run on Windows (lots of code for >>> same), but I am not aware that it works there. The existing gnuplot >>> package uses OSProcess on Linux/Mac and ProcessWrapper on Windows, and I >>> have done the same thing when I need to run on Windows. >>> >>> I have seen no evidence that ProcessWrapper works other than on Windows; >>> if you find that it does, please make noise about that. I *think* I like >>> it better than OSProcess, but I do a lot more relevant work on Linux >>> where I can't use ProcessWrapper. >>> >>> Bill >>> >>> >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: [email protected] >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carlos >>> Crosetti >>> Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 9:46 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: [Pharo-project] OSProcess >>> >>> >>> Hi, is rhe OSProcess designed to call out an external program from a >>> Windows vm? >>> >>> Regards, Carlos >> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pharo-project mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
