Ditto the pain of working both with the *nix script and the Windows
scripts. I don't have ready access to Windows machines either so have
to rely on the kindness of people who do when I need to modify the
scripts. I think it was one of those things that started out with a
simple script and each addition was easier to add to the scripts than
move everything to Java. Until it became a monster.

One point of clarification: I _think_ Anshum meant moving the command
parsing and all that rot out of the scripts, not the ability to invoke
the commands themselves.

So if you have the time/energy to take it on, please do create a JIRA...

Best,
Erick

On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 8:40 AM, Ishan Chattopadhyaya
<[email protected]> wrote:
> There's https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-7871 which has some
> relevant discussion in these painpoints.
> Frankly, working with solr.cmd has been one of the toughest things I've had
> to deal with in last few months (thanks to my inability to work with Windows
> script).
>
> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Anshum Gupta <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jason,
>>
>> The history behind the scripts is that they were simpler, and were done to
>> make things easier for end users. Not sure if you have worked with the
>> 'bootstrap' part of the command that predated these scripts, but the
>> intention was to move away from those.
>>
>> There was an intention to move the code that can be moved to Java, and do
>> the heavy lifting there, considering that would also mean reduplication of
>> code between the *nix, and the windows scripts but due to lack of bandwidth,
>> that was never done.
>>
>> It'd be great to get a patch on the same and have this move out of the bin
>> scripts altogether. Feel free to create a JIRA and start working on it.
>>
>> In case someone else more to add, please do.
>>
>> Anshum
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 7:43 PM Jason Gerlowski <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I noticed recently that arg validation/parsing/help-text for the
>>> "create", "delete", "auth", "zk", etc. commands makes up a huge chunk
>>> of the (bin/solr) scripts.  (Some 600 lines by a quick count!)
>>>
>>> This is a shame, since that logic is duplicated across two
>>> platform-specific scripts.
>>>
>>> I'm not familiar with the history of these scripts; is there a reason
>>> this logic lives here?  I know that some args must be examined before
>>> we enter Java-land ("--verbose", JVM args, come to mind).  But is
>>> there a reason the other arguments are parsed/examined there as well?
>>>
>>> If there's not, moving that logic to Java would gain us a few things:
>>>
>>> - removes duplication
>>> - makes test-writing for this logic possible
>>> - Java-logic is more accessible/readable to some than bash/Windows-shell.
>>>
>>> Is there anything I'm missing about this logic living in the bin
>>> scripts?  I'm happy to create a JIRA and do the leg-work for the
>>> change if this is something we're interested in.  Just wanted to ask
>>> around before starting, due to my lack of background.
>>>
>>> Thanks for clarification, if anyone has any to offer.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Jason
>>>
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