On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Daniel Spiewak <
djspiewak@...> 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
alex
