Re: best way to launch (a series) of other (non gnustep) programs

[Dirk Olmes]

On 2004-07-04 16:26:47 +0200 Chad Hardin <cehardin@mac.com> wrote:

> Well, if you think about it, depending on something like $PATH is itself 
> non-portable!  Sure, we have grown accustomed to things like a $PATH variable 
> in the environment, but who's to say it must exist?  For example, you're 
> assuming that something like gv will exist, that itself is very non-portable. 
>   Really, $PATH i something used by shells, not really the OS, this goes for 
> all the normal "shell" type stuff environment variables you may be thinking 
> of.  Just something to chew on.
[...]
> I suppose you could write a method like this to search for a UNIX program in 
> $PATH:
>
> -(NSString*) findProgram: (NSString*) programName

Chad is right, path does not even have to be set. But I've implemented 
searching $PATH in Zipper and found it works quite well :-)

You may also consider providing a preference setting for the path to the 
executable to launch. While it has to be done manually, the user is free to 
organize his/her filesystem.

-dirk