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

[Philip A. C. <pc...@td...>]

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!
>=20
> -Jeff
>=20
> > 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=20
> > example). =20
> >=20
> > As someone who has had to maintain APIs that promised all=20
> > 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.
> >=20
> > Tom
> >=20
> > On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 07:28, Philip A. Chapman wrote:
> > > Everyone,
> > >=20
> > > Now that three people have done some work on the Execute=20
> > class, I think
> > > we should delete it.  :-)  I base this opinion on a=20
> > conversation we had
> > > on this list (See the thread started with subject=20
> > 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.
> > >=20
> > > Note, I have not yet deleted the class in case someone is aware of
> > > functionality the Execute's methods afford us that the=20
> > Runtime's does
> > > not.
> > >=20
> > > Thanks,
> > > --=20
> > > Philip A. Chapman
> >=20
> >=20
> >=20
> >=20
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--=20
Philip A. Chapman