On Mar 3, 2008, at 3:37 , David T. Lewis wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 05:49:54PM -0500, Bill Schwab wrote:
>>
>> The copy plugin appears not to be in my VM.  To be safe though, how
>> would I test that?  So far, all I have found is to call a function in
>> the plugin, which could fail for various reasons besides the code not
>> being present.
>
> Bill,
>
> If you call the file copy primitive, it will try to load the plugin.
> The #listLoadedModules method will show you the loaded plugins, hence:
>
>   FileList new primitiveCopyFileNamed: 'foo' to: 'bar'.
>   SmalltalkImage current listLoadedModules
>       detect: [:plugin | 'FileCopyPlugin*' match: plugin]
>       ifNone: ['the FileCopyPlugin is not installed']
>

Also, #listBuiltinModules will list the plugins compiled into the VM.  
There is no similar call for external plugins, but these you can see  
in the files system yourself.

- Bert -