[Gambas-user] Gambas 3.1 and Exec (Bug or NOT?)

[Willy Raets]

On do, 2012-04-12 at 01:54 +0200, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> The bug was in Gambas 3.0. Now, in Gambas 3.1, if you try to run a 
> program that does not exist, you get an error.

If the bug is in Gambas 3.0 it is also in Gambas 2 because I used the
exact same code for both Gambas 2 and 3.0 (without the TRY and checking
for length of returned string -> as no errors are generated)

Now I'm stuck with two different approaches as TRY in Gambas 2.x and 3.0
will NOT generate an error and thus returns me the wrong information.

So the 2.x and 3.0 code will not work for 3.1
The 3.1 code will not work for 2.x and 3.0
I loved the fact that both versions used exactly the same code.
Makes maintaining them a lot easier. But that is in the past now :-(

I actually preferred the fact that, even if a command was not present,
no error was generated when running it. It simply returned me an empty
string when using EXEC, which is great for testing if a command is
present or not using the LEN() function.

For now my whole project is on a complete hold because of this, as TRY
seems to open processes in 3.1 that do not get closed when closing the
application (see other posts) :-(