I think we need to work out the sense of the community on changes like this one. We seem to have one faction building scripts for another faction to take out. Do we intend to have convenience scripts (and deal with platform dependencies) or not?
I understand the desire to avoid unnecessary platform dependencies, but I appreciate having the scripts -- those class names are soooo long and hard to remember. When I have need of a commandline tool from DSpace for which there is no script, I tend to write my own script even for a single use. Maybe the scripts should be modularized out of the base package? There could be a "sh scripts" add-on, a "cmd scripts" add-on, and perhaps others as needed. Or maybe we just need to extend dsrun so that it can look those entrypoints up for us. If I could use 'dsrun ItemImporter' rather than 'dsrun long.path.through.the.namespace.itemImporter.ItemImporter' then I might not need the scripts so much. This being Java, dsrun could rummage through the classpath to find all of the methods with the necessary signature, show a list if requested, and recognize abbreviated names. (Actually it might be better to define a common interface for classes which expose commandline tools, both as a marker for ease of introspection and to require the implementation of a method which returns a brief description of the command.) Hmmm, it would probably be good to do both. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu "And some people go both ways." -- Scarecrow
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