I assume this is still the best place? This was posted by Luke Gorrie on the Pharo #general Discord channel, which I guess David will never see…
OSProcess is not working out that well for me. I know exactly what system calls I want to make (read, write, select/poll, etc) and when I want to make them. The challenge is working out how to make the object-oriented interface do what I want. For example I was totally surprised yesterday that process upToEnd only returns output that was previously read from the process somehow and does not actually check for new output. It's also unhelpful that many of the convenience methods, like outputAndError, can deadlock because they are just not written correctly with respect to how Unix works e.g. that you have to read from stdout and stderr in parallel and can't do one to completion and then the other. I don't like to complain because obviously a lot of work goes into the framework but I don't think it is really the right tool for the job for my own application. Could be more suitable if I were running many processes and piping them together in Smalltalk, in the spirit of a Unix shell, etc. But I am just running one subprocess at a time and processing its output stream.
Also the question was raised whether OSP is still actively maintained for Pharo.
Thanks!
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