Interoperability under Windows (Was: [Oz] Oz vs. Squeak)

[Denys Duchier]

mikki at ida.liu.se (Mikael Kindborg) writes:

> My primary need would be to call external services from Oz,
> rather than making Oz avaiable as a service (even though
> many people seems to want to use Oz in this way). The reason
> for this is that a view Oz as the primary development language.

If the external services is provided through a DLL, then you can
easily create Oz bindings by writing a native functor.  If you mean to
invoke and interact with other programs through e.g. an IO interface
you can use Open.pipe which sucks a bit because both stdout and stderr
of the subprocess are identified.  I wrote a better IO and process
interface (under contrib), but it only works for Unix -  I'd like to
devise abstractions which would work as well for Unix and Windows, but
I haven't had the time yet, and I lack Windows expertise.

Cheers,

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