On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 10:07:17PM +0100, St?phane Ducasse wrote: > > 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.
Well, the functionality on Windows was always limited, and people could always use FFI to start external programs, so I think it has not seemed very important. I wrote OSProcess with a goal of having it work on multiple operating systems, even though it is doing very platform-specific things. The design worked well and has been fairly successful, but I have to admit that I do not personally use Windows very much, and I have not put much effort into making the Windows version more useful. It's just one of those projects that's been sitting on my to-do list for way too long ;-) Dave _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
