On 7/7/10 3:39, Reto Bachmann-Gmuer wrote:
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Richard S. Hall<[email protected]>wrote:
I'm not too familiar with Scala, so pardon my ignorance.
So is the proposal to have some sort of Scala-based console/shell? Does
this mean you can do Scala-based scripting and syntax? Is this something
that could simply be another shell front end for the Gogo runtime or is it
somehow completely different?
I must admit I'm not familiar with OSGi RFC-147 so I'm not sure if it could
be implemented on it.
To be as attractive for people currently not using OSGi it should feel as
much as possible like the scala console, this includes:
- autocompletion with tab
- multi-line expressions (afte an incomplete expression such as one opening,
but not closing a bracket a continuation-prompt appears)
Once we have this we can add a DSL to more easily do OSGi related tasks
(listing services and bundles, accessing services, etc. )
Well, I still can't say I totally understand what is being proposed, but
I'm not against having people work on it at Felix if other people think
its worthwhile. If it does ultimately blossom into a full-blown shell
for OSGi, then there will certainly be some overlap with Gogo, but we
can always look for ways to bridge the two...
-> richard
Reto
