On Jan 9, 2010, at 6:26 PM, David T. Lewis wrote:

> 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.

do you know why?
Because this would be cool.

> 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
> 
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