[Cuis] OSProcess status

[Casey Ransberger]

I'm loving this! OSProcess is one of those things such that -- when you
need it -- you *really* need it.

Also: given that we've gone with Git in Cuisland, any tool that makes
getting stuff in and out of MCZ files will greatly reduce the barrier to
porting applications over.

I think OSProcess is a great test of the general process, too, because it
hasn't got a ton of UI surface that would need to be rewritten to work with
Juan's Morphic implementation.


On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 3:55 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> Hi Juan,
>
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 12:45:03AM -0300, Juan Vuletich wrote:
> >
> > With the appropriate compatibility package and / or some tweaks to Cuis
> > (I described them elsewhere in this thread), it looks like you could
> > support Cuis with exactly the same code as Squeak.
>
> Yes I agree.
>
> >
> > Given that extracting the code from a MCZ file is not hard, I could
> > write a simple tool to allow converting an MCZ file to .pck.st format.
> > This tool would also convert newline characters (cr, crlf, lf) to Cuis
> > default: lf.
>
> I think this tool would be useful, and it would make it easier to bring
> existing packages into Cuis.
>
> >
> > This means that if your code specifically requires a cr or crlf string
> > or character, instead of including them in a string literal, you would
> > need to use #cr, #lf or #crLf. The good part is that your code would be
> > line ending agnostic. BTW, to require a default line terminator, I'd
> > suggest adding #newLineString to Squeak, answering the same as #cr (in
> > Cuis it answers #lf).
>
> Yes I agree, and it would be a good thing for me to make those changes.
>
> >
> > Would all this be ok for you? If so, all we need to do is to run this
> > tool when you publish a new version of OSProcess.MCZ, and publish the
> > result to the Cuis GitHub repo.
>
> Yes this is ok, I like this approach.
>
> I should mention also that running OSProcess in Cuis helps to find bugs
> in OSProcess. For example, OSProcess class>>isUnix was broken, and I did
> not notice the problem until I loaded it in Cuis. So this is is a good
> thing.
>
> Dave
>
>
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