[Cuis] OSProcess status

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Dave,

I still could not run all the tests on Mac OS, but at least I can say 
something like the attach is needed to support OSProcess on Mac OS on Cuis.

Thanks,
Juan Vuletich

On 12/30/2013 12:33 PM, David T. Lewis wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 06:37:50PM -0800, Ken Dickey wrote:
>> On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 15:05:45 -0500
>> "David T. Lewis"<lewis at mail.msen.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> I made a package called "OSProcess" and saved the OSProcess.pck.st in a
>>> new github repository called "Cuis-Smalltalk-OSProcess".
>>>
>>> This is the first time I have used github, so please let me know if this
>>> works as expected.
>> Dave,
>>
>> I must first admit knowing _nothing_ about OSProcess, so following remarks may be less than intelligent.
>>
>> The Cuis-Smalltalk-OSProcess GIT project cloned just fine.
>>
> On the contrary, very helpful - thanks!
>
>
>> I made some guesses about what the OSProcess package requires.
>>
>> =================In Workspace:
>> "OSProcess"
>> Feature require: 'FFI'.
>> Feature require: 'SqueakCompatibility'.
>> Feature require: 'Network-Kernel'.
>> Feature require: 'OSProcess'.
>> ============================
>>
> I updated it to specify SqueakCompatibility and Network-Kernel. The network
> package is not strictly required, but it is needed for some of the unit
> tests and I cannot imagine that someone using OSProcess would not also
> want networking. FFI is not required (VM plugins are used rather than FFI)
> so I left that out.
>
>
>> There were some test failures.  In particular:
>>
>> UnixProcessTestCase
>> 	forkSqueak requires XDisplayControlPlugin
>>
>> AioEcentHandlerTestCase
>> 	aio event forwarding not supported
>>
> Most likely you are using a Cog VM that does not able to provide the X11
> display control plugin. For purposes of running the full OSProcess test
> suite, it is best to use a standard interpreter VM (from squeakvm.org/unix).
> Aside from that, Cog is fine for most practical applications of OSProcess,
> so unless you need some specific function (such as the #forkSqueak methods),
> it will not matter which VM you are using.
>
> Thanks a lot for the help and guidance.
>
> Dave
>
>
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!OSProcess class methodsFor: 'version dependent' stamp: 'jmv 1/1/2014 14:50'!
isCuis
	"True if this image is Cuis"

	Smalltalk
		at: #SystemVersion
		ifPresent: [:cls | ^cls current isCuis ].
	^false! !