First, I botched that report, should have been #isMemberOf:->isSymbol, instead of the opposite. Just in case anyone else is following this here, instead of on Mantis.
David T. Lewis wrote:
I think there are a few little glitches related to ByteSymbol in the latest VMM/SVN sources etc (I'm trying to figure the same thing out myself as soon as I get a bit of free time).
Note that Tim has apparently already fixed this particular instance that I know about in his versions, but this change has not yet made it to SqueakMap.
[current state of OSPP/VMM] I thought I'd mention that after fixing that small thing, and reading some documentation, I did manage to build OSPP, and then run OSP, to the extent that GraphViz works, so I'm pretty satisfied. CommandShell also works pretty nicely.
From the 121 (!) UnixProcess* tests, 66 pass, 10 fail, 45 errors. Many of the errors give me an annoying OK box, saying that the process access module is not available (which I would prefer to have appear only when/if I investigate the bug).
Bottom line: For now, use one of Ian's distributions if you are running OSPP. Sorry for the inconvenience.
I am using the Debian packaged Squeak, which seems to be version 3.8a-1 (don't know from who). When compiling the sources, I got Ian's code (latest tar ball, not SVN), in which I didn't actually find the UnixProcess plugin. Are you sure its there?
I think OSProcess is great, and I think it should be available out of the box or very close to it. Not that I have really good ideas how to achieve that, just a wish.
p.s. I'm having trouble building the latest VMM and SVN sources on Linux. The resulting VM does not see the X11-display plugin. Probably I'm doing something dumb, but is anyone else seeing this problem?
Sorry, I built only that plugin, and placed it where my existing VM can see it, so I have no idea.
Daniel