For those not experienced with other language let me offer here an explanation why having something like OSProcess is vastly important.
Coding even before the time of Smalltalk has been tied to the command line, even in this day all languages come with the ability of the command line to use them and them to use the command line. Since increasing the size of our community is paramount to the acceleration of the growth and evolution of pharo , it is also paramount to smooth out the learning curve of Smalltalk. In order to do that we must offer a familiar environment to these coders , especially in the case where Pharo offers no real alternative. Arguing that just because Smalltalk offers a different way of doing things ok to ignore what others are been doing, is an excuse destined to collapse on itself when Smalltalk for decades and still even Pharo fails to offer , not only good alternatives but even bad ones , in case of command line. Which means that currently Pharo offers no real alternative for functionality that is offered via the command line, that means: 1) No library to deal with Git directly , Gitfiletree does this through the command line 2) No command line alternative for interaction with a vast array of software like VLC, ImageMagick, video converters, audio converters , programming languages etc etc 3) Even when we take a look at pharo ecosystem the command like reigns supreme, for example a trip to the pharo website success stories make its clear that by far the most popular platform for commercial pharo apps is the web . Guess what tool the web developers use the most ? Yeap the command line. We make the life of those people that want to use pharo professionally really really hard. Programming and coding is about covering a vast array of scenarios and maybe in a small community of a few hundred like pharo maybe its ok to ignore the command line but I can assure you in a community like Python that is more than 2 million , it is not. We already got command line integration for pharo outside the image , lets make the logical next step and offer also command line support from inside the image as well. Let's not justify the stereotype that "Smalltalk is a distant lone island, just because" or that is outdated. On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 3:25 PM Thierry Goubier <thierry.goub...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2016-10-28 14:12 GMT+02:00 Guille Polito <guillermopol...@gmail.com>: > > But the functionality is there, it's just that it is not loaded by default. > > Loading it by default implies wedding Pharo's life cycle with > OS(Sub)Process' one, and having to maintain the possibility of dependencies > to OS(Sub)Process spreading in the entire environment. > > > Like many of the other projects loaded by default in a Pharo image. What > is wrong with OSSubprocess or OSProcess so that they can't be treated the > same? > > > > What is wrong in executing a simple Metacello command to load it? > > > The fact the image doesn't come as a one download / ready to use for an > average user? > > Thierry > > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > I have a love and hate relationship with Pharo > this one I will put in the hate category > > You expect people to use pharo when you do not offer functionality they > come to expect from the language they already use and not even offer an > altervative, say a library with similar command line functionality (See > Scale). > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 2:59 PM Norbert Hartl <norb...@hartl.name> wrote: > > > > Am 28.10.2016 um 13:17 schrieb Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com > >: > > > > I just noticed that OSProcess misses from Pharo 6 image, it was supposed > to be replaced by OSSubProcess but this not in the image either ? What we > suppose to use to execute bash from inside pharo ? > > It was never in the image. You need to install it in order to use it. > > Norbert > > > >
