The length of the build is not an issue IMO. It's only a couple of minutes.
G -------- Original message -------- From: Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> Date:01/11/2014 06:28 (GMT-05:00) To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org> Subject: Re: [exec] Java 5 and generics 2014/1/11 sebb <seb...@gmail.com> > On 11 January 2014 10:50, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm working on it, but you're invited to help out ;-) > > > > Currently I'm not sure if we're going in the right direction here. The > exec > > website says that exec fill the need for something like ProcessBuilder in > > Java < 5. In Java > 5 you would probably use the ProcessBuilder directly. > > Now we have updated to Java 5, which excludes the only user group that > had > > a real need for it from using it :-) > > Good point. > > However Exec does offer some additional features such as variable > substitution and watchdog etc that should still be useful in Java 5. > > But we should probably rewrite it to get rid of the OS-specific > classes and privatise/finalise as much as possible. > So maybe an Exec2 would be a good idea? > We can then break binary compat. > Okay for me. This way we can get generics right (see my reply to you're commit). Another thing that needs fixing it the test environment. It just takes forever. But I currently don't know how to speed things up. > > > Benedikt > > > > > > 2014/1/11 sebb <seb...@gmail.com> > > > >> On 11 January 2014 02:17, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > Hi All, > >> > > >> > Now that [exec] has 'graduated' to Java 5, we are getting a bunch of > >> > generics raw warnings. > >> > > >> > It would be nice to get these cleaned up ;) > >> > >> Had a quick look. > >> Some fixes look easy, but some are not immediately obvious - for > >> example, the substitution Map values can be String or File (according > >> to the tests). > >> > >> > Gary > >> > > >> > -- > >> > E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org > >> > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition< > >> http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> > >> > JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> > >> > Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> > >> > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > >> > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > >> > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > http://people.apache.org/~britter/ > > http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ > > http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter > > http://github.com/britter > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- http://people.apache.org/~britter/ http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter http://github.com/britter
