On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Marcin Tustin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I'm an occasional squeak/pharo dabbler, and I'm wondering what the > recommended way of interacting with external processes is these days? > > Should I go through the process of getting all the VMMaker and OSProcess > stuff, and build the OSProcess plugin, or is there some other way in Pharo > to interact with the OS environment? > > Hi. Which OS are you? because I think OSProcess is not working on Windows. And I also think there are binaries for it, so you don't need to generate .c from VMMaker neither compile c code to binary. But I may be wrong. CommandShell ? Maybe using normal FFI or AlienFFI? They will let you invoke shared libraries of the OS from Pharo. > Alternatively, are people doing something (easy) with IPC mechanisms like > named sockets or TCP streams? > > The "project" I'm working on is putting figlet on a website, just for fun. > > Marcin > > -- > Marcin Tustin > Mobile: 07773787105 > Office: 020 3400 3259 > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-users > >
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