+1
Joe
Jason Dillon 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
