David Roundy-2 wrote:
No, createProcess is more low-level than the previous interface, which is why it can't be implemented using the previous interfaces, but rather they can be implemented using createProcess. Which is why they can be deprecated, although I'd hope they won't be removed for at least a couple more ghc releases after createProcess is introduced.
In what way is 'createProcess' more low-level than the previous interfaces? In any case, it still makes sense to me to keep the previous interfaces around indefinitely - even if they have to be redefined in terms of 'createProcess'. But 'createProcess' seems quite a bit more high-level than the others. It seems to combine a lot of different POSIX functions like 'exec' and 'system' and 'pipe' which could all be exposed individually through a simpler API. Frederik -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Proposal%3A-overhaul-System.Process-tp16844161p1799417... Sent from the Haskell - Libraries mailing list archive at Nabble.com.