Hi all:
antsh sounds very cool.
I'm not sure of the details, but it may be useful to look at JShell (from Patrick Beard) when considering implementation of antsh. JShell aspires to be more than antsh, but it is similar in that it avoids starting a new JVM upon every invocation of ant. I'm on a mac (OS9.1), and JShell is a good option for running ant there. It works reasonable well.
One word of caution: JShell doesn't properly handle jvm forking. Has antsh been tested in cases where a new jvm is forked in the buildfile?
Cheers,
Matt
Hi,
Last night I thought I would be great to avoid to start JVM and to parse the Ant build file each time I want to do a build. I know that there is an ongoing effort called 'antidote' but I was thinking rather about a command line tool.
And that's how Ant Shell (antsh) is born :-)
