[exec] use of commons-logging

2005-09-22 Thread Kev Jackson
Hi, I've been looking at the use of commons logging in exec. Coming from ant dev, it would be nice to refactor ant to use the commons-exec package, but Ant has it's own logging mechanism (using logging listeners), and I'm pretty sure that the ant code base will not change to using

[exec][patch] basic ant file + properties

2005-08-08 Thread Kev Jackson
Just in case you don't want to use Maven ;). Eventually got some time to play with OS dev again (w00t). Kev ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? !-- === Apache Commons-Exec build file Copyright (c) 2005 The Apache

Re: [exec][patch] basic ant file + properties

2005-08-08 Thread Kev Jackson
Brett Porter wrote: Hi Kev, Glad you've got some time to play :) I had a look at this and all the functionality except for parameterisation of the debug/deprecated/optimize variables seems to be included in the build.xml file I created - what was the reason for replacing it? Sorry I was

Re: [exec][patch] commons-exec initial contrib

2005-08-07 Thread Kev Jackson
Niklas Gustavsson wrote: Kev Jackson wrote: I'm not a fan of maven, so I'll write up a quick build file for it, I'll also look into javadoc/unit tests as soon as I have some time (perhaps tomorrow) Great! With regards for the unit tests I personally think that the first step should

Re: [exec][patch] commons-exec initial contrib

2005-08-05 Thread Kev Jackson
(This email with a .zip attachment does not seem to get through to the list. And since there's no component for exec in bugzilla, I've uploaded the file to http://www.protocol7.com/tmp/commons-exec-initial-20050802.zip instead. If I should send it somehow different, please enlighten me.)

Re: [exec] Design of commons-exec

2005-08-01 Thread Kev Jackson
This is a very short description of the cleaned up Ant exec task design: * Exec: the former Ant task class used to create and configure Execute instances. Now mainly a convience class for starting new Execute instances. * Execute: the main class for running one process. Handles creation

Re: [proposal] Commons Exec

2005-07-28 Thread Kev Jackson
Scope of the package The package shall create and maintain a process execution package written in the Java language to be distributed under the ASF license. The Java code might also be complemented with scripts (e.g. Perl scripts) to fully enable