Leo Simons wrote:
I'm thinking of writing some ruby or python scripts. Does anyone else know those languages? I think the only alternatives are either bash or bash embedded into ant/maven <exec/> targets. There's a few things we need (svn, ssh/scp, pgp) that are just not easy to do from java, and hence, ant/maven.
Does anyone have any useful scripts lying around for things like tagging svn, generating md5 and .asc files, interacting with www.apache.org/dist, etc?
Which of those steps can not be done with maven?
* there is no usable svn library for java * there is no usable gpg library for java * writing "interactive" maven plugins / ant tasks / java code is very awkward
for sure, it can be done with maven, but *I* don't know how to do it properly (I can show you some experiments which failed miserably if you want).
What would you propose we do? Write a few thousand lines of java code and maintain our own plugins, figuring out the everchanging and very much undocumented broad landscape of maven internals?
I simply don't have the energy for that. I would very much applaud such an effort (hey Niclas, you hear? I'm applauding your effort ;)), but I'm not gonna do it myself. In the meantime, I think we do need something.
> Why introduce more
complexity?
I will assert the complexity is already there (in the use case)! The reason to use a scripting language is that I know how to (ab)use them to tackle complex problems and "glue" stuff together quickly.
For me, this is "the simplest thing".
| The student who is never required to do what | | he cannot do never does what he can do. |
as always, right on target with the quote...gotta love it :-D
- LSD
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