From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-06-21T11:34:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Cleaning up IO#popen

Hi,

At Mon, 21 Jun 2004 06:06:02 +0900,
evanm@frap.net wrote in [ruby-talk:104194]:
> 
> I think IO#popen could stand to be changed, and I wanted to run my ideas by
> this list. Currently the problems with popen are:
> 
> * can't bypass the shell

In 1.9, it can as well as Kernel#system.

> While looking around for ways to improve on it I came across the Open3
> module in the stdlib, which has a much more "ruby" interface. Based mostly on
> that, I redid some methods that could replace IO.popen (and put popen3 in IO
> at the same time, which is where it probably belongs)

I don't feel that Open3 is more ruby-like, but it's rather
perlish.

-- 
Nobu Nakada