[Bug classpath/111586] java.lang.ProcessBuilder does not search PATH

[guillerodriguez.dev at gmail dot com]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=111586

--- Comment #6 from Guillermo Rodriguez <guillerodriguez.dev at gmail dot com> 
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Hi Andrew; thank you for your reply.

This (status and future of GNU Classpath) is what I wanted to discuss in the
mailing list, as noted in my email on Feb to you and other maintainers.

I can see how the release of OpenJDK, combined with the deletion of gcj
(https://tromey.com/blog/?p=911) made everyone move forward to other projects.
I also understand that GNU Classpath is way behind the current Java spec and
thus is not (and probably will never be) an alternative to the OpenJDK for
general use cases.

> I am interested as to your motivation for continuing to use
> GNU Classpath + JamVM (which I'm not sure is maintained any more either).
> Is there a reason you haven't switched to OpenJDK?

(Yes, JamVM is not maintained any more either)

I think GNU Classpath + JamVM are useful as a lightweight Java platform for
specific purpose applications; for example in embedded systems.

For convenience only, we keep a fork at https://github.com/ingelabs/classpath;
this is currently the same codebase as the upstream repo, with just a few build
fixes. We will be probably integrating more bugfixes in the future, as
internally it is getting more and more cumbersome to work with a checkout of
the upstream repo + a patch stack that keeps growing.

Of course I'd be more than happy to help if you want to merge some or all of
these changes back. Just let me know (for this, it would be good if the mailing
list could be fixed).