Hi again,
Thanks Ivan, for explaining all this. This is exactly the explanation I
needed.
I see this is an important piece of software, I was confused by it
living inside the "examples" directory, so I though these were platform
specific binaries that were used only for running the examples in that
directory.
Un abrazo,
Antonio
P.S.: This is a superb module, by the way.
On 12/10/17 09:46, Ivan Soleimanipour wrote:
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
[1]
https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/tree/master/lib.terminalemulator/examples/lib.richexecution
