+1 Jacek
On Dec 15, 2007 3:02 AM, Jason Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh ya... the time is now, all you party people get out on the floor > and shake what your mother gave ya... > > This is the *first* _official_ release of GShell... and I invite all > of you to go an have a quick look over the only docs we got at the > moment: > > http://cwiki.apache.org/GSHELL > > More docs are on there way I can assure you... as well as more > features, functionality and fun with your command-line... aight! > > * * * > > GShell has been a dream of mine for... er um what seems like years > now... oh wait it has been years. And well, the universe has finally > aligned and things are falling into place quite nicely I'd say. Some > external groups are already consuming these goodies, others have asked > me about it, and there might even been some commercial apps wanting a > simple/easy/kick-ass command-line (remote scriptable) interface to > their application on the horizon too. > > If any of you remember the JBucks days, when I whittled Twiddle out of > thin air as a pluggable command-line framework (only realized to > invoke lame JMX muck)... well, GShell is here to carve out its own > notch... or well, I hope it can get sharp enough to cut something. I > think it will... just believe, imagine and well we make dreams reality > her in the land of source which is open... na... aighty. > > Keep in mind this is an *alpha-1* release, and is a little rough (or > in some cases more than a little) around the corners. I hope, with > the help, guidance and suggestions of the community, that we can sort > though all of the significant issues and polish GShell off enough to > make it generally mass-consumable by applications (like ServiceMix, > ActiveMQ, and other sister server-orient projects which need a > sophisticated command-line interface for administration, > configuration, whatever). > > This version of GShell was inspired a little (okay... a lot) by the > work I've done on the Groovy projects 'groovysh' command-line tool ( > http://groovy.codehaus.org/Groovy+Shell > ). Actually working on 'groovysh' really helped me to figure out > many things w/GShell... and maybe one day Groovy's 'groovysh' will > actually use GShell as a framework, though there is a bit of work left > in the core to make that a reality. For folks that haven't use my new > 'groovysh', you can easily have a look by using the 'groovy-maven- > plugin', as in: > > mvn groovy:shell > > You'll notice a lot of similarities between 'groovysh' and 'gsh' I'm > sure. > > * * * > > While working on this release I've come to realize that GShell and > Maven2 are very similar creatures... which I'll elaborate on more in > the future... but because of that significant functionality which is > already implemented in Maven2 is 90% (or sometimes more) compatible > with the direction GShell is headed towards. For example, one feature > alpha-2 will have is to allow command plugins to define 'dependencies' > just as a Maven project does now. And GShell can be configured (a bit > more flexibly than Maven ATM) for how to find those dependencies (in a > local repo, in a remote repo, in some uber-jar, etc). This will all > leverage the maturing Maven2 codebase. So in some ways GShell will > grow with Maven2 as they both become more and more functional, stable, > reliable... and well ass-kicking no doubt. > > Um... crap, I'm e-babbling again; sorry. So, lets vote and push this > puppy out already... ?! > > +1 Oh ya, come on baby... you know you want it > +0 Um... I don't know what is wrong with batch personally, can't we > just use that? > -1 I like cheese, cheese makes me happy... but damn it cheese won't > let me remotely administer my application... wtf, no way... WAIT!!!! > > So, its Friday evening, 6ish PST... so lets say _sometime_ on Tuesday > the 25th I'll call the vote. That is a little more than 72 hours... > so get your #2 pencils out and shake what your mother gave ya... > > --jason > > > -- Jacek Laskowski http://www.JacekLaskowski.pl
