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On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 4:34 PM, AxiNat <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> when trying Mariano's idea I get the following error:
>
> *forkSqueak requires XDisplayControlPlugin*
> *
> *
> *Select Proceed to continue, or close this window to cancel the operation.
> *
>
>
> Do I need to recompile the VM to add support for this plugin? If so, are
> there any guidelines around on how to do it?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bernat.
>
> 2011/4/4 AxiNat <[email protected]>
>
>> Lukas, if that happened anytime soon it would make my life much easier
>> hehe
>>
>> Is there a way I could help to give it a boost?
>>
>> Mariano, the reason I cannot load the package is that it may contain
>> (either intentionally or not) harmful code. An .st file can contain
>> arbitrary code that is going to be executed at load time, so it'd be really
>> easy to hack the image: "Object compile: 'new'!", for instance ;)
>>
>> The solution you propose looks interesting, but I'm not sure I've
>> completely understood it. Do you mean to run a new image, send it the
>> project file to be filed in, have it run the critics on the loaded package,
>> and get the output back to the original image? If so, that's a solution I've
>> been thinking of, but it would spend too many resources. Even though I could
>> always use a very light image, if only 5 users were to be working on the app
>> at the same time I'm afraid the system would begin to suffer :(
>>
>> On a second thought, is there some smaller, simpler implementation of the
>> SmallLint package? I wouldn't need to run all the tests, just a couple of
>> them: Bugs, Intention Revealing, Miscelaneous and Unnecessary Code, and
>> actually not even all the tests in these categories.
>>
>> Thanks a lot, I'm all ears :)
>>
>> Bernat.
>>
>> 2011/4/4 Mariano Martinez Peck <[email protected]>
>>
>>> Is not enough loading the classes but not showing them in the browser ?
>>> or maybe not putting them in Smalltalk ?
>>>
>>> can you do kind of a fork (using OSProcess) of the proccess  running
>>> image which receives a .st file and in the new forked image you pass the .st
>>> in startup, do a file in and then run code-critics?
>>>
>>> I am curious why you cannot load them hehehehhe
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:41 AM, AxiNat 
>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi list,
>>>>
>>>> I have a pretty special need, which is to be able to run code critics on
>>>> projects that have not yet been loaded into the image. For example, I need
>>>> to browse an st file -or a squeaksource project- and before loading it I
>>>> want to run critics on it, would this be possible somehow?
>>>>
>>>> If it looks like something noone would need to do, I understand. It's
>>>> just that the project I'm working on is pretty particular... I've been
>>>> exploring other possibilities but I'm afraid this is one of the few left 
>>>> for
>>>> me to think of :(
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot in advance!
>>>>
>>>> Bernat Romagosa.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mariano
>>> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
>>>
>>>
>>
>


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