Are you making progress on the gnome classes? I have the gtk
classes fairly close to where I would like to have them for the
next release. They are not perfect and are also not complete
but I really want to get a release out. I hope to join
you on the gnome package shortly.
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 09:44, Philip A. Chapman wrote:
> Thanks for the input Jeff and Tom. I'll take it out tonight.
>
> On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 06:06, Jeffrey Morgan wrote:
> > I completely agree. Gone it is!
> >
> > -Jeff
> >
> > > I heartily agree (not that my vote counts for much yet :-). While the
> > > documentation for Execute's async and shell methods suggests they have
> > > unique capabilities, a quick grep of the Gnome source code shows that
> > > they both are used for the same purpose as Runtime.exec(s), often
> > > interchangably (g_get_home gets called a lot using both, for
> > > example).
> > >
> > > As someone who has had to maintain APIs that promised all
> > > things to all
> > > users, I've learned the hard way to just provide the minimum and then
> > > see who complains and why. A smaller API is also easier to learn and
> > > use appropriately.
> > >
> > > Tom
> > >
> > > On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 07:28, Philip A. Chapman wrote:
> > > > Everyone,
> > > >
> > > > Now that three people have done some work on the Execute
> > > class, I think
> > > > we should delete it. :-) I base this opinion on a
> > > conversation we had
> > > > on this list (See the thread started with subject
> > > Gnome2.defs Aug 10,
> > > > 2002). Execute's async and shell methods duplicate functionality
> > > > provided by the java.lang.Runtime.exec methods. I wish I would have
> > > > remembered this conversation last night before I worked on it, but
> > > > that's the way it works.
> > > >
> > > > Note, I have not yet deleted the class in case someone is aware of
> > > > functionality the Execute's methods afford us that the
> > > Runtime's does
> > > > not.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > --
> > > > Philip A. Chapman
> > >
> > >
> > >
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