RE: [java-gnome-hackers] Remove the org.gnu.gnome.Execute class?

[Jeffrey M. <Jef...@Br...>]

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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