Re: [proposal] exec support in commons

2005-07-27 Thread Trygve Laugstøl
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 09:47:25AM +1000, Brett Porter wrote: > Well, both our replies did say we were swamped :) > > At some point we will want this, so I will create an empty sandbox > project. You might like to read > http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/charter.html (you may already have) > Basic

Re: [proposal] exec support in commons

2005-07-27 Thread Niklas Gustavsson
Excellent, thanks! I'll write up a proposal and sen it to the list. I'll also work on getting the code in shape for a donation ("donation" seems like an overstatement since it's merely cleaned up Ant code). /niklas Brett Porter wrote: Well, both our replies did say we were swamped :) At some

Re: [proposal] exec support in commons

2005-07-27 Thread Brett Porter
Well, both our replies did say we were swamped :) At some point we will want this, so I will create an empty sandbox project. You might like to read http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/charter.html (you may already have) Basically to start we need to send an email to this list with a proposal, simil

Re: [proposal] exec support in commons

2005-07-27 Thread Niklas Gustavsson
Hi again, I never got any reply to the answers below so I'll try again :-) If you still exec support of interest, what would be the appropriate way to proceed to either: 1. donate the code to an existing Commons project (possibly as a biggish patch) 2. create a new project ("exec") using the

Re: [proposal] exec support in commons

2005-06-09 Thread Niklas Gustavsson
Stefan and Brett, great that you like the proposal! I'll read up on plexus-utils and will also take a look at Peters work with Ant2. Now, given that you are both busy and I'm not an Apache commiter, how do you propose we move forward on this? I'm aware of the process for contributing patches

Re: [proposal] exec support in commons

2005-06-09 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Wed, 08 Jun 2005, Niklas Gustavsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I very much like the support for this in Ant and have extracted that > code and removed all Ant specifics for some of my other projects. I > would be happy to contribute and maintain this code should you be > interested. +1 sound

Re: [proposal] exec support in commons

2005-06-08 Thread Brett Porter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Niklas, I'm in favour and think commons is the right place to do it. This has been on the table for a number of years (eg http://ant.apache.org/ant2/actionlist.html#exec), it's just a matter of getting some momentum, I think. Personally, I still d

[proposal] exec support in commons

2005-06-07 Thread Niklas Gustavsson
Hi all, I would like to propose for Commons to include support for executing processes (Runtime.exec() on steroids) in a simple way. I very much like the support for this in Ant and have extracted that code and removed all Ant specifics for some of my other projects. I would be happy to cont