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- Grouper 2.3 uses BeanShell. There's no tab completion, history, etc.
- We're looking to switch to Groovy as the default for GSH.
- The goal would be to keep any existing GSH scripts that deployers may have written as compatible as possible with the new Groovy based GSH.
- Built in GSH commands (e.g. obliterateStem) would be modified to work with both BeanShell and Groovy.
The idea would be that With a 2.3 patch would have gsh.sh/gsh.bat still using BeanShell with a configuration option to use Groovy.Then in 2.4, default it to Groovy with an option to go back to BeanShell.
- The configuration would be via grouper.properties.
- gsh.sh and gsh.bat shouldn't have to change.
- Grouper will include Groovy so deployers won't have to do anything special to get Groovy installed.
- Users can still use another shell as they do today (e.g. https://github.com/wgthom/groovysh4grouper)
- Other advantages of Groovy: Grouper Shell Improvements
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