Yea — submodules is a good idea. Also, I think we should create gremlin-jython, gremlin-ruby, etc. ScriptEngines that have all the imports loaded and ready to go much like we have with gremlin-groovy.
Marko. http://markorodriguez.com > On Jun 16, 2016, at 10:19 AM, Stephen Mallette <spmalle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I would think that we want individual plugins for each variant. > > This does lead me back to an earlier discussion about gremlin-variant > packaging. We didn't want to do > > gremlin-variant > +-- gremlin-variant-python > +-- gremlin-variant-js, > +-- .... > +-- gremlin-variant-XXXXX > > so with gremlin-variant users are going to just get everything when they > depend on it. To my knowledge, we are only kinda viewing this from a python > perspective atm and haven't really researched all the languages we support, > but I sense that ultimately as we add more GLVs we're going to end up with > a really messy pom.xml for gremlin-variant with the potential for conflict > as we try to make maven deal with packaging issues for all those disparate > languages. Again, hard to say how much trouble this will eventually be, but > might be worth noodling on again in case anyone has any new thoughts on the > matter. > > > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Daniel Kuppitz <m...@gremlin.guru> wrote: > >> The last few days I've been working on a Gremlin Python code executor for >> the TinkerPop docs. What I noticed was that we can't simply execute Gremlin >> Python code in our Gremlin Groovy console, simply because the console has >> no dependency to the gremlin-variants projects. >> >> That was unfortunate for the docs pre-processor, but what about the normal >> user? Do we need to have those language variants always available or would >> it be sufficient to have a Gremlin-Xyz plugin (where Xyz could be Python, >> Ruby, etc.)? >> >> I've added the "missing" dependency for now to get the docs pre-processor >> extension done, but I think we should remove that dependency again and >> create a plugin instead, before the branch gets merged into master. >> >> Cheers, >> Daniel >>
