Yes, you need to build trunk.
--jason
On Dec 17, 2007, at 11:13 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote:
I want to test building it. This must be trunk?
Regards,
Alan
On Dec 14, 2007, at 6:02 PM, Jason Dillon wrote:
Oh ya... the time is now, all you party people get out on the floor
and shake what your mother gave ya...
This is the *first* _official_ release of GShell... and I invite
all of you to go an have a quick look over the only docs we got at
the moment:
http://cwiki.apache.org/GSHELL
More docs are on there way I can assure you... as well as more
features, functionality and fun with your command-line... aight!
* * *
GShell has been a dream of mine for... er um what seems like years
now... oh wait it has been years. And well, the universe has
finally aligned and things are falling into place quite nicely I'd
say. Some external groups are already consuming these goodies,
others have asked me about it, and there might even been some
commercial apps wanting a simple/easy/kick-ass command-line (remote
scriptable) interface to their application on the horizon too.
If any of you remember the JBucks days, when I whittled Twiddle out
of thin air as a pluggable command-line framework (only realized
to invoke lame JMX muck)... well, GShell is here to carve out its
own notch... or well, I hope it can get sharp enough to cut
something. I think it will... just believe, imagine and well we
make dreams reality her in the land of source which is open...
na... aighty.
Keep in mind this is an *alpha-1* release, and is a little rough
(or in some cases more than a little) around the corners. I hope,
with the help, guidance and suggestions of the community, that we
can sort though all of the significant issues and polish GShell off
enough to make it generally mass-consumable by applications (like
ServiceMix, ActiveMQ, and other sister server-orient projects which
need a sophisticated command-line interface for administration,
configuration, whatever).
This version of GShell was inspired a little (okay... a lot) by the
work I've done on the Groovy projects 'groovysh' command-line tool
( http://groovy.codehaus.org/Groovy+Shell ). Actually working on
'groovysh' really helped me to figure out many things w/GShell...
and maybe one day Groovy's 'groovysh' will actually use GShell as a
framework, though there is a bit of work left in the core to make
that a reality. For folks that haven't use my new 'groovysh', you
can easily have a look by using the 'groovy-maven-plugin', as in:
mvn groovy:shell
You'll notice a lot of similarities between 'groovysh' and 'gsh'
I'm sure.
* * *
While working on this release I've come to realize that GShell and
Maven2 are very similar creatures... which I'll elaborate on more
in the future... but because of that significant functionality
which is already implemented in Maven2 is 90% (or sometimes more)
compatible with the direction GShell is headed towards. For
example, one feature alpha-2 will have is to allow command plugins
to define 'dependencies' just as a Maven project does now. And
GShell can be configured (a bit more flexibly than Maven ATM) for
how to find those dependencies (in a local repo, in a remote repo,
in some uber-jar, etc). This will all leverage the maturing Maven2
codebase. So in some ways GShell will grow with Maven2 as they
both become more and more functional, stable, reliable... and well
ass-kicking no doubt.
Um... crap, I'm e-babbling again; sorry. So, lets vote and push
this puppy out already... ?!
+1 Oh ya, come on baby... you know you want it
+0 Um... I don't know what is wrong with batch personally, can't we
just use that?
-1 I like cheese, cheese makes me happy... but damn it cheese won't
let me remotely administer my application... wtf, no way... WAIT!!!!
So, its Friday evening, 6ish PST... so lets say _sometime_ on
Tuesday the 25th I'll call the vote. That is a little more than 72
hours... so get your #2 pencils out and shake what your mother gave
ya...
--jason
