[self-interest] Experimental VM manager for OS X to try

[Russell Allen]

You are right - cwd should be set to the image directory. I can fix that.

Russell

On 24/02/2012, at 8:00 AM, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:

> 
> Am 2012-02-23 um 08:35 schrieb Tobias Pape:
> 
> > 
> > Am 2012-02-23 um 02:19 schrieb Russell Allen:
> > 
> > > Hi guys,
> > > 
> > > As I mentioned before I have been thinking about how to make the current VM experience on Macs (with the droplet, complex installer etc) better. 
> > > 
> > > I've uploaded a first think of a better way to http://selflanguage.org/files/releases/4.5/experimental/SelfVM-23Feb12.zip
> > 
> > This is great :)
> > Just one comment: The actual VM inside the app shouldn't be called Self.app, too.
> > I either would name the inner app SelfVM.app or the outer app SelfManager.app.
> > The name clash can have stupid side effects on OS X.
> 
> One more thing:
> 
> executing
> os getcwd
> with the default Self.app (via Droplet)
> results in the path of the running image
> (eg, '/Users/myname/self/')
> 
> whereas executing
> os getcwd
> with the new app results in
> '/'
> which leads to the problem that the example
> runScript-s do not work.
> 
> Either way, have the image dir as cwd seems reasonable,
> but this, too, prevents from executing stuff like
> 'applications/smalltalk/smalltalk.self' runScript
> Or am I doing something stupid here?
> 
> Best
> -Tobias
> 
> 
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