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Deprecate OperatingSystem.Start Process keyword #1773

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pekkaklarck opened this issue Aug 15, 2014 · 0 comments
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Deprecate OperatingSystem.Start Process keyword #1773

pekkaklarck opened this issue Aug 15, 2014 · 0 comments

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Process library added in RF 2.8 contains much better functionality for starting, waiting for, and stopping processes than OperatingSystem. Both of these libs have Start Process keyword. This is confusing to users and requires hacks in code related to finding keywords to work when both libs are imported.

I propose we deprecated OperatingSystem.Start Process in RF 2.9 and remove it altogether in next major release after that. This will cause some work for users, but functionality provided by Process is so much better that they do get some benefits too.

Related to this, we should add a note to OperatingSystem.Run and its variants that Process.Run Process is much more flexible and better in general. There's no urgent need to deprecate OS.Run, though, because there is no name conflict with Process library keywords. Os.Run is also much more widely used that OS.Start Process and deprecating it would cause more problems.

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