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

[Mario Torre]

2017-05-16 20:38 GMT+02:00 Cédric Champeau <cedric.champeau at gmail.com>:
> Let me rephrase: it's tiring to have to repeat why we need it, and why we
> honor the contract of environment variables. Why is it so hard to admit the
> JDK has a bug?

Hello Cédric,

I hope you don't take it wrong or personal, but we really are here to
help, unfortunately this attitude is not helping us helping you. I
suggest to re-read what Brian just said.

The reason why you get suggestion to change how you work is because
changing the JDK effect billions of users that may be affected
negatively by the changes.

Regarding your example:

"""
println System.getenv('MY_VAR')

doesn't print "foo" after doing:

MY_VAR=foo gradle printVar
"""

I agree that the environment variables may change during the program
execution and that perhaps Java may eventually need to reflect that,
but this example is not really appropriate, the Java process started
with an environment variable not set, the one that starts with
MY_VAR=foo is technically a different process...

Cheers,
Mario

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