exec2 is fair game at this point IMO.

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-------- 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).
> >>
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