Re: [Help-smalltalk] Scripting with gst

[Paolo Bonzini]

> a) the command line is a bit unwieldy - I'd want to specify an image
> every time, and I'm more likely to want to pass parameters than I am to
> execute more than one script.
>
> b) the startup time is slower than I'd like for running one-liners and such.
>
> (a) can be solved with a shell script, but (b) is harder. I've been
> playing around with the idea of lazily starting a server and using a
> very lightweight frontend to pass scripts and one-liners to it.
>  
I'm interested, for 2.3, in making the startup time faster by modifying 
the image format.  Your approach however is very interesting.

#basicPrint is meant for debugging, so it is not very interesting to 
make it write to a socket.  (It is a primitive on purpose).  It would be 
better to use dup2 to map the socket onto stderr.

Paolo