[Biojava-dev] ProcessTools / ExecRunner

[Len Trigg]

Hi guys,

I think it would be a good idea for someone who knows the pros and
cons of ExecRunner and ProcessTools to remove one of them from
CVS. Having two classes that do virtually the same thing is
counterproductive. One of the guys here wasn't aware of the
duplication and enhanced ExecRunner to meet his requirements, only to
discover that ProcessTools already had the functionality he
needed. Finding out your effort is redundant like this doesn't make a
happy contributor.

Also, he switched to using ProcessTools, and has noticed that
occasionally a job will just hang (I'm guessing there might be a bug
in the way ProcessTools extracts the stdout/stderr of the process). If
it doesn't ring a bell with anyone, I'll look into it.

Cheers,
Len.