Path: csiph.com!3.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: L A Walsh Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: announcing bashj Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 12:44:07 -0700 Lines: 54 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1529783061 10224 208.118.235.17 (23 Jun 2018 19:44:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: bug-bash To: Eduardo Bustamante Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org User-Agent: Thunderbird In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 173.164.175.65 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:14266 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 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? > >