I'm not sure about the console either. I think it's more a console for evaluating scala expressions. Not sure if there is any plan to have commands and manage anything using this console.
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 16:39, Richard S. Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> > -- Cheers, Guillaume Nodet ------------------------ Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ ------------------------ Open Source SOA http://fusesource.com
