Re: What's the status of the Gpars library ?

2017-12-15 Thread Jim Northrop
second this Russel … Jim > On 15 Dec 2017, at 19:40, Jim Northrop <james.b.north...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > GPars docs are in alpha stage for version 2.0 - on hold waiting progress :-} > >> On 15 Dec 2017, at 17:33, Russel Winder <rus...@winder.org.uk>

Re: Java 8 Date/Time API Extension Methods

2017-06-26 Thread jim northrop
Right Ahm, Good point. Backward compatibility helps not only us old-time groovy ppl but also the new generation of converts to Groovy ✅ Sent from my iPad > On 26 Jun 2017, at 08:10, Ahm Avoby wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > @static parse(): I am with you on keeping the Java

Re: Java 8 Date/Time API Extension Methods

2017-06-25 Thread jim northrop
Lovely piece of work Joe!  Bet you needed a few aspirins to complete this baby. Can we do date arithmetic like 'new Date()+7 days'. or similar? Or maybe thats not part of your code? Sent from my iPad > On 25 Jun 2017, at 23:31, Joe Wolf wrote: > > Goodtimes 1.1 is out

Re: Groovy Documentation query

2017-05-31 Thread Jim Northrop
Was able to do the same thing for http://gpars.org. It was all markdown text so i groovy'd it into asciidoctor. That gave us potential to publish an html site And also generated PDFs too. Do we have any requirement to recast our groovy docs into another format? Sent from my iPad > On 31 May

Re: New Gant release

2017-02-18 Thread jim northrop
using a new browser named Vivaldi that auto-corrects my spelling ! Incorrectly ! Must turn this feature OFF ;-] On 18 February 2017 at 12:52, Jim Northrop <james.north...@orange.fr> wrote: > Working to learn how to release projects to maven and bin tray using > cradle but no succes

Re: when does JsonSlurper return LazyMap vs LazyValueMap ?

2017-01-28 Thread jim northrop
A simple question here. The jsonSlurper creates a ConfigObject but i cannot find a way to add an entry to the ConfigObject with the ultimate intention of writing the whole shebang back to the json text file whence it came. Any ideas pls. .? Sent from my iPad > On 28 Jan 2017, at 02:55, John

Re: [VOTE] new operator ?=

2016-11-23 Thread Jim Northrop
Yes, more use cases please. Sent from my iPad > On 23 Nov 2016, at 17:00, Abhinav Sharma wrote: > > Well, you need to give more use cases for this one > >> On Nov 23, 2016 9:29 PM, "Daniel Sun" wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> If the new operator ?=

Re: building a jar from groovy script with gradle

2016-03-08 Thread Jim Northrop
Out of interest, what is the typical deployment strategy for a runnable Groovy class w/main method? I have been trying to make a user executable jar but as 2 diff.jars. One jar is only my code, no support jars and 2nd is mystuff-all-v1.0.jar as a bundle w/all dependency jars included hence

Re: Wanted: help with using jdbc grapes in groovy shell?

2016-01-11 Thread jim northrop
that's two of us as 'idiots' as i msde that same mistake as you, just earlier ;-D Parts of the learning curve me thinks LOL Have a GR8 Monday woncha ? k/r Jim On 11 January 2016 at 05:38, Richard Heintze wrote: > Sorry, I am idiot! > In previous versions of groovy

Re: Community Support for Novices

2016-01-08 Thread jim northrop
in the groovydoc. I think just adding even one > example to docs that have none, would be the best use of any free time > someone has for doing documentation. > > Gerald R. Wiltse > jerrywil...@gmail.com > > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Jim Northrop < > jame