Re: [Jython-dev] kevin's environ module

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[Kevin & Phil]

>class ShellExec:
>    unixTemplate = 'sh -c "%s"'
>    ntTemplate = 'cmd /c %s'
>    dosTemplate = 'command /c %s' # from http://www.easydos.com/command.html
>    winceTemplate = dosTemplate # just guessing here
>    defaultTemplate = unixTemplate
>    # the keys for these templates taken from 
>    # http://www.tolstoy.com/samizdat/sysprops.html
>    templates = {
>        "Windows 95": dosTemplate, # does this catch 98, ME?
>        "Windows 98": dosTemplate, # guessing
>        "Windows ME": dosTemplate, # guessing
>        "Windows NT": ntTemplate,
>        "Windows NT 4.0": ntTemplate,
>        "WindowsNT": ntTemplate,
>        "Windows 2000": ntTemplate,
>        "Windows CE": winceTemplate, # I do wince when I contemplate CE
>        "Windows XP": ntTemplate # guessing
>        }

A gracefull "do nothing" is needed for clasic macs. It must also be posible to
override the os.name property in the registry file; something like

   python.os=Windows

and then there should some generic entries like

        "Windows": ntTemplate,
        "Unix": unixTemplate,
        "Mac": None,
 

Then we need to decide how to enable this. A registry entry like

   python.environment=Shell

should be the default and other values could be "None" which is what we have
today and maybe "Properties" which could fill the environment with just $HOME
and $USER and $PATH.

regards,
finn