[Cuis] OSProcess status

[David T. Lewis]

Oops, I meant to ask for the results of these on Mac:

  Smalltalk platformName
  Smalltalk osVersion

Thanks

On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 10:52:27AM -0500, David T. Lewis wrote:
> I am having trouble finding a solution to to this works on other dialects.
> The approach of using SystemVersion class>>isCuis does not provide an easy
> solution because most dialects do not have that method.
> 
> Could you please tell me the results of running these two expressions
> on a Mac in Cuis, and also let me know which VM (Cog or interpreter) you
> used:
> 
>   SystemVersion platformName
>   SystemVersion osVersion
> 
> I think that the underlying problem is that my OSProcess class>>platformName
> ends up calling SystemVersion class>>osVersion when it should be calling
> SystemVersion class>>platformName.
> 
> I believe that this is code that I put into OSProcess was for support of
> one of the Pharo versions that had a broken platformName.
> 
> Thanks!
> Dave
> 
> On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 03:11:00PM -0300, Juan Vuletich wrote:
> > That CS was incomplete. This is the correct one.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Juan Vuletich
> > 
> > On 1/1/2014 2:59 PM, Juan Vuletich wrote:
> > >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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> > >>
> > >
> > 
> 
> > 'From Cuis 4.2 of 25 July 2013 [latest update: #1918] on 1 January 2014 at 3:10:49.143344 pm'!
> > 
> > !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! !
> > 
> > 
> > !OSProcess class methodsFor: 'version dependent' stamp: 'jmv 1/1/2014 14:50'!
> > platformName 
> > 	"After Squeak version 3.6, #platformName was moved to SmalltalkImage Some
> > 	versions of Pharo move this to OSPlatform and issue deprecation warnings
> > 	about the other usages."
> > 
> > 	"OSProcess platformName"
> > 	self isCuis ifTrue: [ ^Smalltalk platformName ].
> > 	self isPharo3AndLater
> > 		ifTrue: [ ^ (Smalltalk perform: #os) name ].
> > 	^ (((Smalltalk hasClassNamed: #OSPlatform)
> > 			and: [(Smalltalk at: #OSPlatform)
> > 					respondsTo: #platformName])
> > 		ifTrue: [Smalltalk at: #OSPlatform]
> > 		ifFalse: [((Smalltalk classNamed: 'SmalltalkImage')
> > 				ifNil: [^ Smalltalk osVersion]) current]) platformName! !
> > 
> 
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