Bug#568953: ITP: commons-exec -- a library to reliably execute external processes from within the JVM
* Peter Collingbourne: Executing external processes from Java is a well-known problem area. It is inherently platform dependent and requires the developer to know and test for platform specific behaviors, for example using cmd.exe on Windows or limited buffer sizes causing deadlocks. The JRE support for this is very limited, albeit better with the new Java SE 1.5 ProcessBuilder class. Do we really need this anymore? Java 1.4 is dead, after all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#568953: ITP: commons-exec -- a library to reliably execute external processes from within the JVM
* Peter Collingbourne: On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 02:06:34PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Peter Collingbourne: Executing external processes from Java is a well-known problem area. It is inherently platform dependent and requires the developer to know and test for platform specific behaviors, for example using cmd.exe on Windows or limited buffer sizes causing deadlocks. The JRE support for this is very limited, albeit better with the new Java SE 1.5 ProcessBuilder class. Do we really need this anymore? Java 1.4 is dead, after all. It is a dependency of another package I am packaging (clojure-maven-plugin, ITP soon). Could you port that to Java 6, please? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#568953: ITP: commons-exec -- a library to reliably execute external processes from within the JVM
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 03:06:32PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Peter Collingbourne: On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 02:06:34PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Peter Collingbourne: Executing external processes from Java is a well-known problem area. It is inherently platform dependent and requires the developer to know and test for platform specific behaviors, for example using cmd.exe on Windows or limited buffer sizes causing deadlocks. The JRE support for this is very limited, albeit better with the new Java SE 1.5 ProcessBuilder class. Do we really need this anymore? Java 1.4 is dead, after all. It is a dependency of another package I am packaging (clojure-maven-plugin, ITP soon). Could you port that to Java 6, please? clojure-maven-plugin upstream did use ProcessBuilder until the following commit: http://github.com/talios/clojure-maven-plugin/commit/e6553c67031bcea4f4137a7cecd103345b13a4f9 According to the commit message, this was done to fix certain specific bugs. It would be bad form to potentially reintroduce those bugs into Debian. Thanks, -- Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#568953: ITP: commons-exec -- a library to reliably execute external processes from within the JVM
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 02:06:34PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Peter Collingbourne: Executing external processes from Java is a well-known problem area. It is inherently platform dependent and requires the developer to know and test for platform specific behaviors, for example using cmd.exe on Windows or limited buffer sizes causing deadlocks. The JRE support for this is very limited, albeit better with the new Java SE 1.5 ProcessBuilder class. Do we really need this anymore? Java 1.4 is dead, after all. It is a dependency of another package I am packaging (clojure-maven-plugin, ITP soon). Thanks, -- Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#568953: ITP: commons-exec -- a library to reliably execute external processes from within the JVM
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Collingbourne pe...@pcc.me.uk * Package name: commons-exec Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Siegfried Goeschl sgoes...@apache.org : Sebastian Bazley s...@apache.org : Brett Leslie Porter br...@apache.org : Niall Kegan Pemberton nia...@apache.org : Henri Yandell bay...@apache.org : Niklas Gustavsson n...@apache.org : Dennis Lundberg denn...@apache.org : Trygve Laugstol tryg...@apache.org : Rahul Akolkar ra...@apache.org : Joerg Schaible joe...@apache.org : Henri Biestro hen...@apache.org * URL : http://commons.apache.org/exec/ * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : a library to reliably execute external processes from within the JVM Executing external processes from Java is a well-known problem area. It is inherently platform dependent and requires the developer to know and test for platform specific behaviors, for example using cmd.exe on Windows or limited buffer sizes causing deadlocks. The JRE support for this is very limited, albeit better with the new Java SE 1.5 ProcessBuilder class. . Reliably executing external processes can also require knowledge of the environment variables before or after the command is executed. In J2SE 1.1-1.4 there is no support for this, since the method, System.getenv(), for retrieving environment variables is deprecated. . There are currently several different libraries that for their own purposes have implemented frameworks around Runtime.exec() to handle the various issues outlined above. The commons-exec package aims at coordinating and learning from these initiatives to create and maintain a simple, reusable and well-tested package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
