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Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 14:25:58 -0800
From: "Assaf Arkin" <arkin@intalio.com>
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Subject: Re: Interactive Shell Support
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On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Alex Boisvert <boisvert@intalio.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Daniel Spiewak <djspiewak@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The Scala shell *is* basically done.  It's missing JavaRebel support, which
>> is kind-of a minor thing (incidentally, how should options like this be
>> passed to tasks?).
>
>
> I think this is a good candidate for an environment variable.
> (which can also be set via the buildr command-line)
>
>  It also spawns a sub-process, rather than running in the
>> existing JVM.  I'm actually not sure that this is a bad idea, although it
>> does impose slightly more overhead.
>
>
> I don't think this is a bad idea.   It might also be necessary for irb +
> rjb.
>
> Another thought: coming back to the generic framework, perhaps the shell
>> launched should be configurable?  It could default to whatever shell was
>> associated with the compile.language, but the user could also override in
>> the project definition to choose a different shell provider.  For example,
>> I
>> use jirb a lot with Java projects (scala too come to think of it).
>
>
> I would like that as well (smart default, project override) and even
> command-line selection, e.g.
>
> buildr myproject:shell:jirb

As of Rake 0.8, you can also do:

buildr myproject:shell[jirb]

You can have multiple arguments separated by commas.

Assaf

>
> alex
>