On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 12:08 PM, pg <philippe.go...@gmail.com> wrote: [...] > Description: BASHJ - ANNOUNCE TO THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM OF BASH > > I am pleased to inform you about bashj - a bash 'mutant' with java > support. > This product opens numerous very interesting fields to bash developers.
I have a few questions / comments: * Under which license / use terms are you releasing bashj? It doesn't seem to be free software, the source code does not seem to be available in the Sourceforge project, and I can't find any reference to the license in the links you shared. FWIW, I don't have enough confidence to test bashj by just downloading a random JAR file from the internet and executing it in my computer. I would like to be able to inspect the source code and build it myself. * The wiki page recommends creating the installation directory with 0777 permissions. That seems a bit too insecure? Why does it need world-wide write permissions? (i.e. "sudo mkdir -m=777 /var/lib/bashj/ # create the installation directory") * What's the motivation behind bashj? I'm having trouble understanding why one would like to use a mixture of Java and bash in the same program, when there are options like Jython and Groovy to run dynamic scripting languages in the JVM. Are you using bashj for a particular application for which Groovy wasn't apt? * Since I haven't run the code (for reasons explained above): How do you handle things like the program's current working directory, the environment, subshells, controlling terminal, etc. when everything seems to run in the same JVM server process?
