On 2008.11.21., at 11:28, Martin Probst wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I realize this is a bit off topic, but I think many (if not most) of
> the JVM language implementors have some implementation of an
> interactive console. If I'm not mistaken, they are usually using JLine
> (at least for Scala and JRuby?) from http://jline.sourceforge.net/.

Rhino shell is using it too when it is present on the classpath.

> JLine is nice and does work to some degree, but it appears to have
> some unfixed bugs. The bugtracker on SourceForge contains many very
> old feature requests and some never-applied patches.
>
> So my question: are the language projects using JLine using a - maybe
> even common - patched version? Is there any progress on the project? I
> think JLine is a nice tool, and quite important for Java in general -
> command lines are not going away. It might be worthwhile to revive
> this library a bit.

I wasn't aware it's inactive. Are there actual features missing from it?

Attila.

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> Regards,
> Martin


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