;) I asked because I'm using for coral. But people will see. Stef
On Jan 9, 2010, at 10:18 PM, David T. Lewis wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
