At 2:17 PM -0600 7/31/01, Judson Valeski wrote:
>Next Tuesday we'll be having an API review meeting to get our
>nsIFile iface back up to speed before we (Pete Collins, _the man_,
>has stepped up) bang out the clean-up. See
>http://www.mozilla.org/projects/embedding/apiReviewNotes.html#nsIFile
>for the most recent notes on the topic.
>
>I wanted to spark this thread now, as we may not have access to Doug
>Turner's brain next week for the meeting, and he's got some opinions.
>
>Specifically, there's grumbling that the notes above are dated WRT
>the following line items:
>
>- ditch the char * method versions in favor of Unicode versions
Here's a case where I'd like to see us use UTF-8. If 7-bit ASCII
fits, then so be it.
>- spawn should go away
I have no problem seeing this go away. Not all OS's even have a
notion of spawing a process with command line arguments. And since it
is non-blocking, there's no real way to interact with the process
once it's been been spawned.
- Patrick
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