[Vm-dev] Re: working directory under Mac OS X

[David T. Lewis]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 09:02:24AM +0200, Andreas Raab wrote:
> 
> FWIW, I'm completely neutral on this just as long as we ensure that 
> "FileDirectory default" points to the image directory. Whether the OS' 
> cwd is the image, the vm, or some random directory is completely 
> irrelevant from my POV.
> 
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas

+1

Dave

> 
> On 5/26/2011 1:10, John McIntosh wrote:
> >Well I think this is a discussion point for the squeak&  pharo list.
> >The comment is quite clear:
> >"LETS NOT DO THIS, SEE what happens for people wanting to do
> >./Squeak.app foobar.image  zingger.st"
> >
> >At 3.8.19b1     I did
> >sqMacMain.c                             drop cwd to VM directory at
> >startup time to help script writers use ../ or ./
> >Mmm spring 2008
> >
> >
> >Historically, John Maloney's original code did the chdir in o-s 7.5.x
> >  that was ported forward into os-x when it ran as pre-mach-o app and
> >at the time there was some confusing signals from Apple about should
> >apps change to the home directory etc... So it sat until I added in
> >sufficent unix cmd options/parms awarness for people to complain about
> >the behaviour.
> >
> >
> >On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Eliot Miranda<eliot.miranda at gmail.com>  
> >wrote:
> >>Hi Andreas, Matthew, John, (Hi All),
> >>     I'm getting my house in order, merging the Newspeak VM into the OSCog
> >>platforms hierarchy.  One big difference between trunk vms (and Newspeak)
> >>and Qwaq VMs on Mac OS X is that in the Qwaq VM there is an early chdir to
> >>the directory containing the .app, whereas in the non-Qwaq VMs the 
> >>directory
> >>is left as is.  If you look
> >>at http://squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/trunk/platforms/Mac OS/vm/sqMacMain.c
> >>you'll see that this chdir has been commented-out, so there was a point 
> >>when
> >>it was in standard VMs.  Andreas, Matthew, do you think the Qwaq behavour 
> >>is
> >>important to preserve?  John, what's the history of this?  Should I even
> >>bother trying to maintain the Qwaq behaviour and instead disable it in all
> >>builds (Qwaq, OSCog, Newspeak)?
> >>best,
> >>Eliot
> >
> >