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

[Eliot Miranda]

Thanks all.  It's getting nuked :)

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 1:55 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
>
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