From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-03-16T01:47:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Naming tips for popen4-style library?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Paisley [mailto:jp-www@dcs.gla.ac.uk] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 9:32 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Naming tips for popen4-style library?
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I've been developing a library for communicating with sub 
> processes via 
> pipes, which is modelled somewhat after Python's Popen4 class [1] 
> (although the semantics are slightly different).

Ara Howard had brought up an Open4 back in http://rubyurl.com/Pq1hj.  I
mention this because the win32-open3 package already has an Open4 module
that uses Ara's API approach (i.e. returns a pid as a 4th argument).

If folks want to change things, that's fine.  But the Ruby community
should try to come to a consensus as to what the API should look like
and how it should behave.

Regards,

Dan