[squeak-dev] Re: OSProcess on Mac?

Ken G. Brown kbrown at mac.com
Sun Dec 12 19:42:42 UTC 2010


Version 4.2.4 of UnixOSProcessPlugin.bundle.zip appears to be at
ftp://ftp.smalltalkconsulting.com/experimental/

along with some other perhaps useful stuff like
 ftp://ftp.smalltalkconsulting.com/experimental/AioPlugin.bundle.zip

Ken G. Brown

At 7:48 PM +0100 12/12/10, Bernhard Pieber apparently wrote:
>Am 12.12.2010 um 17:53 schrieb Bernhard Pieber:
>
>>Am 12.12.2010 um 17:46 schrieb David T. Lewis:
>>
>>>Some of the recent Mac VMs were built with a very out of date version
>>>
>>>of OSProcess that causes problems on Mac, including crashes when
>>>
>>>performing #forkSqueak. I'm not sure if the 4.2.5 VM has this issue,
>>>
>>>but you check by evaluating "OSProcess accessor osppModuleVersionString".
>>>
>>>If the result is '4.0.1' then you have the outdated plugin. You need
>>>
>>>at least version 4.0.2 to run safely on a Mac (the current version of
>>>
>>>OSPP is 4.4.0).
>>>
>>This seems to be my problem. I have the outdated 4.0.1. Can I get the most recent one built for Mac from somewhere?
>>
>I found a VM with a more recent UnixOSProcessPlugin here:
><http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r2316/Cog.app.tgz>http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r2316/Cog.app.tgz
>
>Printing the following:
>OSProcess accessor osppModuleVersionString.
>results in '4.3.2'. Not the most recent one but still 212 of the 219 tests run. The only 7 failures are the known forkSqueak issue.
>
>Now all of CommandShell works beautifully!
>
>Thanks David for this cool package!
>
>Cheers,
>Bernhard




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