Unsupported features

[ehmicky]

Background issue at sindresorhus/execa#1147

nano-spawn's design goal is to have a small package size. As such, it is intentionally missing some features. Execa provides with those missing features, if a user needs them. Alternatively, users have access to the underlying subprocess, so they can achieve most of what they want.

This issue lists those missing features:

• Synchronous execution
• Binary input/output
• Multiple input/output
• File input/output (see File input/output #19)
• Node.js or web streams (as opposed to iterables). However, users will be able to pass those to the native stdin/stdout/stderr option, e.g. {stdout: createWriteStream('./output.txt')}.
• Graceful termination
• Custom logging
• IPC
• REPL-like input string
• Additional file descriptors can be set through the underlying native option stdio. However, they cannot be iterated nor retrieved.
• Setting a max size for the output.
• Preventing the subprocess to throw. Due to this there is also no need for a result.failed/error.failed boolean.
• Terminate the subprocess when the current process exits.
• Forceful termination after a delay
• Script interface
• Template string syntax
• Keeping the final newline
• Splitting the output in lines (the final output, not when iterating)
• Global/shared options
• Provide a stack trace when terminating the subprocess
• Shebangs on Windows (see Windows support #12)
• Custom Node.js binary (e.g. without ICU)
• Transforms
• Current directory in the result
• Booleans on the error object indicating the subprocess failure reason: timeout, cancelation, signal termination, etc.
• Verbose mode
• Advanced piping:
  • Piping from stderr, both stderr+stdout, or other file descriptors
  • Piping to other file descriptors than stdin
  • Piping multiple subprocesses to one
  • Cancelling piping

@sindresorhus Please let me know if this list is incorrect.