On 29 January 2012 21:11, Guillermo Polito <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> I've spent a few hours playing with Alien+FFI and I did want to have a
> Command line interface to play and use as a quick browser.
This is something I'd like to have as a part of Coral.
What's your opinion on the FFI-libc approach compared to OSProcess? I
was actually thinking of doing something like that using NativeBoost
:)
> Gofer it
> squeaksource: 'CLInterface';
> package: 'ConfigurationOfCLInterface';
> load.
>
> ConfigurationOfCLInterface load.
>
>
> To play with it write a script, for example startCLI.st, with the following:
>
> CLInterface start
>
>
>
> And then, from the command line
>
> CogVM -vm-display-null <image> startCLI.st
>
>
> What it does support?
> - executes smalltalk expressions
> - handles the errors and shows them into the stdout (so it does not explode
> :P)
> - stores variables as a workspace
> Since I used standard C functions (fgets and printf only) this should work
> on every platform from scratch (having a VM with FFI working, of course)...
>
> The problems I've ran so far:
> - blocking FFI blocks the vm. I've not tried yet to use threads through FFI
> (and I don't know if it works. Does it?). But It should be great to start
> a headless seaside server with a command line :/.
>
> Ok, it's a very simple thing, but it allows to execute a expression from a
> remote server via ssh without doing much :).
>
> Guille
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