[Vm-dev] Separating launcher from VM binaries

[Ben Coman]

On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 at 00:04, K K Subbu <kksubbu.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> In working with Squeak images of different formats and word sizes, I
> find myself struggling with a bunch of scripts - run, squeak, squeak64,
> cog, cog64, spur, spur64 etc and having to update the run script
> whenever a new format comes out. There should be simpler way .....
>
> It would be nice to separate the main programs - launcher(squeak) and
> ckformat - from the VMs that read specific image formats.
>
> VMs could be generated with base format built into the name or path e.g.
> lib/$VER/$BASE/ostvm or lib/$BASE/$VER/ostvm
>
> The main launcher (squeak) will probe and launch a matching VM with
> something like:
>
>     lib/$VER/$(ckformat $IMAGE)/$VMNAME $ARG
>
> without having to find out the exact format number. This will enable
> multiple format VMs to co-exist in a machine without having to change
> PATH settings etc.
>

PharoLauncher does this... https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher
Maybe you could reuse some of it.  Review might start with:
* PhLVirtualMachineTest
* PhLVirtualMachineManagerTest
* PhLVirtualMachineManagerFunctionalTest

cheers -ben
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