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title="NEW - Clean up the launcher script for *nix"
href="http://fiji.sc/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1253">1253</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Clean up the launcher script for *nix
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<th>Product</th>
<td>ImageJ
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>PC
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Linux
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>enhancement
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>P5
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<th>Component</th>
<td>Launcher
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>imagej-bugs@imagej.net
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>ipatrol6010@yahoo.com
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<pre>I've discovered in attempting to debug ImageJ just how contorted the launcher
script is for the platform. It's fragile, hard-to-read, cluttered, highly
dependent on a particular system configuration, and relies on a menagerie of
external processes to work.
I think this is probably a good example of what *not* to use a shell script
for. I'm thinking of rewriting it in Python, since it's practically standard on
*nix platforms, and can do all of this a lot more intelligently.
I'm going to go ahead on that if there are no objections.</pre>
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