Thanks for the update. The reason I suggested a .bat file is to mirror the behavior of Apache Ant - which has an ant.bat as well as an SH launcher called just "ant".
It may be more complicated than it's worth however to just make a DOS batch script - DOS is weak compared to *nix shells. The right solution may be to make a mostly-complete native Java launcher, then stripped down "nutch" and "nutch.bat" files for the bin directory. Another open-source Java-based search utility I've been using lately is OpenGrok [http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/opengrok/]. The OpenGrok indexer doesn't even have a launcher - just a JAR, so a native Java lanucher could be just fine ... as long as the entire Classpath doesn't have to be fed to it on the command line. -- Jim On 9/11/06, Andrzej Bialecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Tomi NA wrote: > On 9/11/06, Jim Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dear Nutch User Community, >> >> Does anyone have a nutch.bat file to use in the bin directory? I >> find it >> bemusing that Java (cross-platform) was chosen as the development >> language, >> but the launcher is written in Bash. > > As much as I hate to say it, but you're right, it doesn't make any > sense to hobble such a great body of platform independent code with a > couple of short bit vital *n*x-only scripts. ...even if we are talking > about windows. > Would it make sense to go java all the way and use groovy or > beanshell? My knowledge of these projects is rather superficial, but > someone else might know more... Originally Cygwin was needed to ensure the presence of some of the Unix utilities, such as df(1), which get the info from OS that Java cannot get; and of course to run the shell scripts. Recently the dependency on POSIX-compatible df(1) has been removed. And scripts can be rewritten in Java - although unless you use another type of launcher (again, based on scripts!) there is no way to build single-argument applications in Java; so, you always have to type more than you would when starting a native application. Anyway, I believe it should be possible now to get rid of Cygwin dependency. If it's a high priority for you, please submit a patch. -- Best regards, Andrzej Bialecki <>< ___. ___ ___ ___ _ _ __________________________________ [__ || __|__/|__||\/| Information Retrieval, Semantic Web ___|||__|| \| || | Embedded Unix, System Integration http://www.sigram.com Contact: info at sigram dot com
