Dear Aik-Siong Koh,

Squeak/Pharo has been extended with scripting functionalities. You can  
call Squeak within any bash script.
Please, get in touch with Gwenael to know more about his great work.

Cheers,
Alexandre


On 8 Feb 2009, at 20:28, askoh wrote:

>
> For about a year now, I have been asking if Squeak can be called by  
> external
> programs, if it can be controlled by a non-Squeak program, if it can  
> be used
> to make plugins or addons in CAD programs. And I have not received  
> an answer
> that says that it is possible now nor anyone working on that for the  
> future.
> If Alien FFI can do it I would be most happy to try it immediately.  
> Can the
> author of Alien FFI give an authoritative answer to its capability  
> to do the
> above? Is there documentation to describe how? Thanks in advance.
>
> All the best,
> Aik-Siong Koh
>
>
>
> Michael Haupt-3 wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 7:43 AM, askoh <askoh at askoh.com> wrote:
>>> Learning from Squeak's mistake,
>>
>> what do you mean?
>>
>>> I am eager to know if Newspeak programs can
>>> be called by external programs. ...
>>
>> I don't quite know if I understand you correctly, but there is a
>> sophisticated FFI implementation (called "Alien FFI") that comes with
>> a robust callback mechanism. So, yes, it is possible to make calls
>> into the image from, e.g., C code. Does that answer your question?
>>
>>> Is there any estimate of a release date?
>>
>> I'm not the one to give a definitive answer here, but Gilad Bracha
>> wrote it would be "Real Soon Now :-)" (capitalised and smileyed as
>> quoted) on January 13th. See
>> http://gbracha.blogspot.com/2009/01/apologia.html
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>
>
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