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Re: announcing bashj

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Seems like the original missed being sent toe the bug-bash alias.

But I'm curious...
What's the context for this?  FWIW, removing non-bug-bash-subscribers
(that I know of), as my question is aimed, I guess, at Eduardo,
but not sure if it was posted to bash list or not?

Maybe I just missed it?

Thanks!
-linda




Eduardo Bustamante wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 12:08 PM, pg <philippe.gonze@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
>   
>> Description: BASHJ - ANNOUNCE TO THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM OF BASH
>>
>>     I am pleased to inform you about bashj - a bash 'mutant' with java
>> support.
>>     This product opens numerous very interesting fields to bash developers.
>>     
>
> I have a few questions / comments:
>
> * Under which license / use terms are you releasing bashj? It doesn't
> seem to be free software, the source code does not seem to be
> available in the Sourceforge project, and I can't find any reference
> to the license in the links you shared.       FWIW, I don't have
> enough confidence to test bashj by just downloading a random JAR file
> from the internet and executing it in my computer. I would like to be
> able to inspect the source code and build it myself.
>
> * The wiki page recommends creating the installation directory with
> 0777 permissions. That seems a bit too insecure? Why does it need
> world-wide write permissions? (i.e. "sudo mkdir -m=777 /var/lib/bashj/
>   # create the installation directory")
>
> * What's the motivation behind bashj?  I'm having trouble
> understanding why one would like to use a mixture of Java and bash in
> the same program, when there are options like Jython and Groovy to run
> dynamic scripting languages in the JVM.   Are you using bashj for a
> particular application for which Groovy wasn't apt?
>
> * Since I haven't run the code (for reasons explained above): How do
> you handle things like the program's current working directory, the
> environment, subshells, controlling terminal, etc. when everything
> seems to run in the same JVM server process?
>
>   

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