No, it's not OK to get rid of them.
The zipfiles contain compiled binaries of "process_start.c" from the same
directory.
If you want to get rid of the .zip files you'll have to replace them with a
process for
generating a binary 'process_start' from "process_start.c".
NB's build machinery is not into generating platform-specific native binaries
so you _won't_ be able to accomplish the above easily.
The "& friends" are also relevant.
lib.terminalemulator, _and any module beginning with "lib."_, is a
"NB-independent" library.
This means code in these "NB modules" is not allowed to have dependencies on
other NB modules so
that it can be used in other standalone applications.
This is perhaps a NB convention that hasn't seen enough exposure in this
new venture.
A properly working terminal _application_ requires support for "pty"s which
Java philosphy,
in all of it's platform-independent wisdom, has neglected. So lib.richexecution
and 'process_start'
fill in for that functionality.
You can read about pty's here: http://wiki.netbeans.org/TerminalEmulatorPty
And more genrally about the lib.terminalamulator module here:
http://wiki.netbeans.org/TerminalEmulator
There is a portion of NB, CND, which is not yet up for release to apache, which
has a fair amount of
code to handle pty's on various platforms but all that code is rather
heavy-weight and
depends on other NB modules.
The purpose of lib.richexecution then is to allow the testing of
lib.terminalemulator/examples/TermApp
and running lib.terminalemulator/examples/TermTester w/o dependencies on the NB
platform.
I, the original author of this code, use all of it in my development.
On 10/11/17 22:44, Antonio wrote:
Hi all,
The "lib.terminalemulator" module has some _example_ zip files with platform specific executables that
can start processes in the host os. These are "process_start-linux-intel.zip" & friends. I think
these are here just for historical purposes as a demonstration of the capabilities of the
"lib.richexecution" example within the module.
I assume we'll want to get rid of those, so I can delete those from the
repository, is this ok?
Thanks,
Antonio
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https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/tree/master/lib.terminalemulator/examples/lib.richexecution
