Don't know if I get a vote... but that sounds +1 to me. -- Langley
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 05:21 -0500, Felix Meschberger wrote: > Hi all, > > Ever since the first RC of Groovy 1.6, groovy-all.jar has been a bundle > and can be deployed into Sling (actually an OSGi Framework) as is to be > used for scripting. > > Now that Groovy 1.6 has been released, I think it would be cool to > include Groovy in the upcoming Sling Release out of the box in the > launchpad archives we are distributing. > > WDYT ? > > Regards > Felix > > > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Betreff: [groovy-dev] Groovy 1.6 is released! > Datum: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:08:06 +0100 > Von: Guillaume Laforge <glafo...@gmail.com> > Antwort an: d...@groovy.codehaus.org > An: Groovy User <u...@groovy.codehaus.org>, Grails Users > <u...@grails.codehaus.org>, dev <d...@groovy.codehaus.org>, > annou...@groovy.codehaus.org > > Hi all, > > This is with very great pleasure and honor that I'm announcing the > final release of Groovy 1.6, on behalf of the Groovy development team > and SpringSource. > > Obviously, 1.6 is a very important milestone for the project, with > several great new features and improvements: > - great runtime performance improvements > - multiple assignments > - optional return in if/else and try/catch blocks > - AST transformations and all the provided transformation annotations > like @Singleton, @Lazy, @Immutable, @Delegate and friends > - the Grape module and dependency system and its @Grab transformation > - various Swing builder improvements, thanks to the Swing / Griffon > (http://griffon.codehaus.org) team > - as well as several Swing console improvements > - the integration of JMX builder > - JSR-223 scripting engine built-in > - various metaprogramming improvements, like the EMC DSL, per-instance > metaclasses even for POJOs, and runtime mixins > > An article will be published in the coming days on InfoQ > (http://www.infoq.com) and GroovyMag (http://www.groovymag.com) coming > back on all those features and novelties with more details. > > You can download Groovy 1.6 at the usual place: > http://groovy.codehaus.org/Download > Additional installers and bundles will be provided soon. > > And you can also have a look at the JIRA changelog listing features, > improvements and bug fixes: > http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GROOVY?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:changelog-panel > > Very big thanks to all the developers who contributed to the project, > in particular our most prolific ones like Paul, Roshan, Danno and > Jochen, and to all our users who've helped shape the project, thanks > to their great feedback and suggestions. > > Let me also mention an interesting event which is shaping up: the GR8 > Conference, a conference dedicated to Groovy, Grails and Griffon, > organized by the Danish JUG and SpringSource! > You can learn more about the event on the conference website: > http://www.gr8conf.org > Or by following the twitter account: http://twitter.com/gr8conf > The conference takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark, and will provide > several practical sessions and hands-on labs to get you up-to-speed on > those great Groovy-based technologies. > The registration should be open in the coming days, so get ready! > > Enjoy! >
