Hi Chris and Stefan

yes, the Squeak cmdline arg processing through a file is what I'm using,
but Pharo supports different ( more 'traditional looking') stuff afaict. If
there was code specific to the Pharo way of doing it, I'm SMark, I don't
know about it, since I haven't used Pharo for a few years (and RSqueak
doesn't work with it,  because they removed some of the fallback code for
primitives that we don't implement).

I can look at the code, but I would be against a command line interface
that doesn't work the same across different Smalltalk distributions. But we
can certainly think about how to improve it.

cheers,
Tim

On 30 April 2016 at 18:12, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Squeak always processes command-line arguments. If the
> #readDocumentAtStartup Preference in the image is set (the default),
> it will treat the first image argument as a URL referring to a
> Smalltalk script to execute, and the subsequent ones as arguments to
> that script:
>
> squeak -vm [vmArgs] myImage.image [urlToSmalltalkScript]
> [scriptArg1 scriptArg2 ...]
>
> There's a convenience method provides easy access to those arguments
> and basic error handling for headless running via
>
> "This code goes in a text file and referred to by the
> urlToSmalltalkScript"
> Smalltalk run: [ :scriptArg1 :scriptArg2 | "... your script..." ]
>
> If readDocumentAtStartup is not set, then each image argument is
> simply passed in as an Array of Strings.
>
> squeak -vm [vmArgs] myImage.image [imageArg1 imageArg2 imageArg3 ...]
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Stefan Marr <smalltalk at stefan-marr.de>
wrote:
>> Hi Tim:
>>
>>> On 29 Apr 2016, at 12:10, timfelgentreff <timfelgentreff at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>>
>>> what does your squeak-vm.sh script do? Because on Squeak, I cannot
simply
>>> type --help and get output. The mailing list thread you linked refers to
>>> something Pharo specific that I don’t think we have in Squeak.
>>
>> At least in Pharo there was/is a way to register a handler for the
startup.
>> SMark used to do that. It then will process the command line arguments.
>>
>> I don’t remember the details, sorry, and currently don’t have access to
the code to check.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Stefan
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Stefan Marr-3 wrote
>>>> Hi Tim:
>>>>
>>>>> On 28 Apr 2016, at 13:01, Tim Felgentreff &lt;
>>>
>>>> timfelgentreff@
>>>
>>>> &gt; wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> - can it be controlled from the command line?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, provided you mean "use a .st file argument". To run a benchmark
>>>>> you can write e.g.
>>>>> - BenchmarkAutosizeSuite run: {'BenchmarkSimpleStatisticsReporter'.
>>>>> 'SMarkShootout'. 100}. # runs all shootout benchmarks for 100 outer
>>>>> iterations, reporting statistics in the autosize suite
>>>>> - BenchmarkCogSuite run: {'BenchmarkSimpleStatisticsReporter'.
>>>>> 'SMarkShootout.benchBinaryTrees'. 100}. # runs the binarytrees
>>>>> benchmarks for 100 outer iterations without autosizing, but with one
>>>>> extra iteration for warmup
>>>>
>>>> I look at your changes to the code, but if you didn’t remove any SMark
>>>> features, there is also a proper command-line interface.
>>>>
>>>> See:
>>>>
http://forum.world.st/Convention-to-build-cmd-line-interfaces-with-Pharo-td3524056.html
>>>>
>>>> $ squeak-vm.sh Pharo-1.2.image --help
>>>> SMark Benchmark Framework, version: SMark-StefanMarr.12
>>>>
>>>> Usage: &lt;vm+image&gt; SMarkHarness [runner] [reporter]
>>>> <suiteOrBenchmark>
>>>>
>>>> [iterations [processes [problemSize]]]
>>>>
>>>> Arguments:
>>>> runner optional, a SMarkRunner class that executes the
>>>> benchmarks
>>>> reporter optional, a SMarkReporter class that processes
>>>> and displays the results
>>>> suiteOrBenchmark required, either a SMarkSuite with benchmarks,
>>>> or a benchmark denoted by Suite.benchName
>>>> iterations optional, number of times the benchmarks are repeated
>>>> processes optional, number of processes/threads used by the
>>>> benchmarks
>>>> problemSize optional, depending on benchmark for instance number
>>>> of
>>>> inner iterations or size of used data set
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>> Stefan
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Stefan Marr
>>>> Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
>>>> http://stefan-marr.de/research/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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