Result: 4 +1 (1 non-binding), 1 +0, no -1

The vote is passed and I've implemented it:
http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-6859

Thanks
-Vincent

On Aug 22, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:

> Hi devs,
> 
> I'd like to propose adding the Ivy JAR to our Platform/XE distributions.
> 
> The reason is simple: it makes it possible to use the Groovy @Grab directive 
> which makes it real easy to extend XWiki using Groovy script.
> Several advantages: 
> - not having to manually hunt for transitive dependencies
> - not needing to stop/restart XWiki (since this is what you need to do if 
> your groovy script needs to use some third party jars).
> 
> Here's a good usage example:
> 
> {{cache}}
> {{groovy}}
> @Grab(group='org.codehaus.groovy.modules.http-builder', 
> module='http-builder', version='0.5.1')
> import groovyx.net.http.RESTClient
> 
> github = new RESTClient( 'http://github.com/api/v2/json/' )
> 
> println "|=Project|=Description|=Use Wiki?|=Use Issues?"
> def response = github.get( path : 'repos/show/xwiki' )
> response.data.repositories.each() { repo ->
>    println 
> "|[[${repo.name}>>http://github.com/xwiki/${repo.name}]]|${repo.description}|${repo.has_wiki}|${repo.has_issues}"
> }
> {{/groovy}}
> {{/cache}}
> 
> If you try to do this without the grab directive you'll find yourself hunting 
> down more than 30 jars which you'll need to put in your WEB-INF/lib 
> directory, whereas here it's a single line directive. It's really powerful.
> 
> Here's my +1 to make it easy for users to use Groovy scripts.
> 
> Thanks
> -Vincent
> 

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