Bug#568953: ITP: commons-exec -- a library to reliably execute external processes from within the JVM

[Peter Collingbourne <peter@pcc.me.uk>]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 02:06:34PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Peter Collingbourne:
> 
> >  Executing external processes from Java is a well-known problem
> >  area. It is inherently platform dependent and requires the developer
> >  to know and test for platform specific behaviors, for example
> >  using cmd.exe on Windows or limited buffer sizes causing deadlocks.
> >  The JRE support for this is very limited, albeit better with the
> >  new Java SE 1.5 ProcessBuilder class.
> 
> Do we really need this anymore?  Java 1.4 is dead, after all.

It is a dependency of another package I am packaging
(clojure-maven-plugin, ITP soon).

Thanks,
-- 
Peter