[squeak-dev] Re: OSProcess on Mac?

Ken G. Brown kbrown at mac.com
Sun Dec 12 20:03:21 UTC 2010


Where can I get XDisplayControlPlugin?
As Bernhard mentioned, it complains that it is missing when trying to run tests.

Ken

At 2:54 PM -0500 12/12/10, David T. Lewis apparently wrote:
>Ken,
>
>Thanks a lot, this is good to know. Hopefully both the OSProcess
>and AIO plugins will work for folks using the 4.2.5 VM.
>
>By the way, I have not heard if the AioPlugin.bundle works or not,
>so if anyone can give a success or failure report I'd appreciate it.
>If CommandShell works without giving a warning about the missing
>AioPlugin, then it's working :)
>
>Thanks,
>Dave
>
>On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 12:42:42PM -0700, Ken G. Brown wrote:
>> Version 4.2.4 of UnixOSProcessPlugin.bundle.zip appears to be at
>> ftp://ftp.smalltalkconsulting.com/experimental/
>>
>> along with some other perhaps useful stuff like
>>  ftp://ftp.smalltalkconsulting.com/experimental/AioPlugin.bundle.zip
>>
>> Ken G. Brown
>>
>> At 7:48 PM +0100 12/12/10, Bernhard Pieber apparently wrote:
>> >Am 12.12.2010 um 17:53 schrieb Bernhard Pieber:
>> >
>> >>Am 12.12.2010 um 17:46 schrieb David T. Lewis:
>> >>
>> >>>Some of the recent Mac VMs were built with a very out of date version
>> >>>
>> >>>of OSProcess that causes problems on Mac, including crashes when
>> >>>
>> >>>performing #forkSqueak. I'm not sure if the 4.2.5 VM has this issue,
>> >>>
>> >>>but you check by evaluating "OSProcess accessor osppModuleVersionString".
>> >>>
>> >>>If the result is '4.0.1' then you have the outdated plugin. You need
>> >>>
>> >>>at least version 4.0.2 to run safely on a Mac (the current version of
>> >>>
>> >>>OSPP is 4.4.0).
>> >>>
>> >>This seems to be my problem. I have the outdated 4.0.1. Can I get the most recent one built for Mac from somewhere?
>> >>
>> >I found a VM with a more recent UnixOSProcessPlugin here:
>> ><http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r2316/Cog.app.tgz>http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r2316/Cog.app.tgz
>> >
>> >Printing the following:
>> >OSProcess accessor osppModuleVersionString.
>> >results in '4.3.2'. Not the most recent one but still 212 of the 219 tests run. The only 7 failures are the known forkSqueak issue.
>> >
>> >Now all of CommandShell works beautifully!
>> >
>> >Thanks David for this cool package!
>> >
>> >Cheers,
> > >Bernhard
>>




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