Re: [swift-corelibs-dev] Better integration with UNIX tools

2017-11-19 Thread Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-corelibs-dev
> On Nov 19, 2017, at 7:01 PM, Abhi Beckert wrote: > > First of all, I disagree with Brent's assessment that we shouldn't have a > variant that "simply shells out". Even though this use case is "discouraged" > in other languages, I think in practice it definitely has a place. If you really wan

Re: [swift-corelibs-dev] Better integration with UNIX tools

2017-11-19 Thread Abhi Beckert via swift-corelibs-dev
> Any ideas on what form it would take? A class method on Process that > returns the output, maybe? I think there are two solutions, and I'd like to see both of them taken. First of all, I disagree with Brent's assessment that we shouldn't have a variant that "simply shells out". Even though this u