On Feb 12, 3:55 am, Attila Szegedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd be willing to add it as a dependency, provided it is indeed > optional. Our Ant build task can automatically download the required > JAR files for building the js.jar, and on runtime it'll take advantage > of it if present. > > Attila. > > On 2008.02.12., at 6:27, Matthieu Riou wrote:> Hi, > > > I find consoles, for all "scripting" languages very useful. It's a > > really nice way to try out things and test some very specific > > behaviors. However I'm getting more and more annoyed by the Rhino > > console. The fact that you can't simply go back and forth on the line > > you're typing, editing portions or correcting typos, is inconvenient > > at best. I'm aware it's a problem with Java (what?! a native console? > > how ugly!), that makes these things very awkward, rather than > > something that should be laid at Rhino's feet. > > > There's a very nice little BSD licensed library, called JLine [1], > > that can add "modern" command lines features like line editing, > > command history (how useful) and even completion (the cherry on the > > cake). I came to a point where I'm more than willing to do the > > integration and propose a patch but before I wanted to see if you'd be > > willing to add JLine as a dependency. Rhino has very few dependency so > > far and it's good to keep it that way, although this one would > > probably only be needed when you use the shell. And I could even come > > up with a way to make it optional, falling back to using System.in > > when JLine is not present. > > > Thoughts and opinions? > > > Thanks! > > Matthieu > > > [1]http://jline.sourceforge.net
Yes, agreed. This isn't an onerous dependency to add since it's from the shell rather than the core library. And I'd love to use it! --N _______________________________________________ dev-tech-js-engine-rhino mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-js-engine-rhino
