A quick note I have some projects in which I use ABCL on that still need java1.6 I was unable
to use the new code as well
- Un-deprecate SYS:RUN-SHELL-COMMAND. Use the pre Java 7 APIs as best
we can to support invoking programs, which essentially boils down to being able to take a string, attempt to invoke it, and return its stdout as a string.
- Re-code the SYS:RUN-PROGRAM Java callsite linkages so that ABCL
may be compiled on pre-Java7 JDKs. Produce an intelligible error if it is invoked on a pre-Java7 JVM.
Create an API to determine runtime JVM version. WrapUIOP/RUN-PROGRAM invocation in some sort of handler that will "fall back" to using SYS:RUN-SHELL-COMMAND if it has compatible behavior via specified args. This will potentially be fairly ugly code ASDF-side so we might provide a shim that UIOP/RUN-PROGRAM invokes that contains the logic outside the ASDF code base.
Any objections to this path forward?
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