Getting a live view of environment variables (Gradle and JDK 9)

[Kirk Pepperdine]

Hi,

> On Oct 12, 2017, at 2:54 PM, Mario Torre <neugens.limasoftware at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 2017-10-12 11:58 GMT+02:00 Cédric Champeau <cedric.champeau at gmail.com>:
> 
>> 1. an API in 18.3 which would let us refresh the environment variables,
>> even if inherently unsafe (we can take the risk, if the Javadocs explains
>> that if you're really unlucky calling such a method could kill your VM).
> 
> Being a public API we would expose everyone to this risk, and the API
> should be supported on all platforms maybe forever. I know other
> people have different opinion here, but this seems to be high risk,
> high impact to be worth.

As I have stated in post postings, this is behavior is unexpected and IMHO shouldn’t be supported.
> 
>> 2. we change the way Gradle works and force explicit declaration of all
>> environment variables a user script can use. Then, we would only spawn a
>> new VM if the current daemon environment variables do not match those
>> required found by the client.

This describes a more appropriate behavior.

Kind regards,
Kirk Pepperdine