[Swift-user] Does SWIFT_JOBDIR_PATH work for output?

[Mihael Hategan]

On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 18:21 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> 
> > It seems that there is no (obvious) way to add variables to the 
> > environment from java 1.4. You can either let the child process inherit 
> > the full environment or specify the exact environment.
> > 
> > In Java5, there is a better scheme: ProcessBuilder.
> > 
> > So I'm contemplating the idea of dropping the Java 1.4 restriction and 
> > moving forward.
> 
> The same has bugged me in the past (enough that I have a patch in a local 
> checkout that uses 1.5 stuff for that).
> 
> I guess 1.5 is pretty widespread on machines that people are likely to 
> want to run locally on.

Alternatively, there could be this "smart" provider that uses
ProcessBuilder on >1.5 and the exitsing scheme on 1.4.