Its out... sorry about the delay. Now I'm off to Thailand for a few
weeks :-)
--jason
On Dec 20, 2007, at 11:22 PM, Guillaume Nodet wrote:
Any news about that ?
On Dec 19, 2007 9:39 PM, Jason Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This vote has passed with 8 +1, no other votes.
I will release this later today.
--jason
On Dec 14, 2007, at 6:02 PM, 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
>
>
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Cheers,
Guillaume Nodet
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