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/. > > 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.
JRuby uses Jline right now, but we'll probably move to a readline based on our FFI library, since we could write the whole thing in pure Ruby. We have submitted several patches to Jline, but the maintainer seems to have moved on to other things. For a while, we even shipped a patched version. The FFI move would mean we just calling straight out to the real library, and we wouldn't have to fiddle with any third-party lib's bugs. I am increasingly of the opinion that Java proper needs a standard FFI library built in. - Charlie --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to jvm-languages@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
