15:09 <headius[m]> Good morning!

16:47 <headius[m]> enebo: so there are a few ways to proceed on this Windows open3 issue

16:48 <headius[m]> popen3 got a one-off hack to work without native processes years ago... we could duplicate that for popen2e but there's a bunch of gnarly code in ShellLauncher that would have to be copied or refactored

16:49 <headius[m]> we could try to implement the other parts of open3 just using JI and ProcessBuilder, which is what the current popen3 falls back on anyway

16:50 <headius[m]> or we could try to wrap the childprocess gem which has process launching already wired up for posix_spawn, Windows CreateProcess, and Java ProcessBuilder... might not take too much adaptation to make open3 use it

16:50 <headius[m]> I am spiking little attempts at each of these today to see what is the most feasible

17:29 <enebo[m]> headius: yeah this is one of those grotty areas

17:29 <headius[m]> this code is so old now

17:29 <headius[m]> I may be close to just having a popen2e that uses ProcessBuilder and nothing else and that might be good enough for 9.2

18:00 <headius[m]> woohoo

19:40 <chrisseaton[m]> How many process open APIs can they make at this point...

19:40 <chrisseaton[m]> `popen47ex_super_edition`

19:44 <headius[m]> Yeah for Pete's sake let's settle on one