[GROOVY-6406] Support Installable Groovy Applications

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Grape
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Mark Fortner
• Created: 29/Oct/13 18:03
• Updated: 04/Nov/13 13:42

Description

Grape is a great tool for installing dependencies, but it would be very useful to be able to install Groovy-based applications using the same approach. The user would be able to simply type:

grape install-app org.me myapp 1.0

And you would be able to run it by entering:
myapp

Grape would add the JAR to the local repo, and install either a default script to run the app, or install any scripts registered with in the JAR's manifest into an appropriate directory in the path.