[GROOVY-6514] groovysh should offer easier access to grapes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.5.0-alpha-1
• Component/s: Groovysh
• Assignee: Pascal Schumacher
• Reporter: Thibault Kruse
• Created: 13/Jan/14 15:55
• Updated: 02/May/17 02:03
• Resolved: 09/May/16 18:30

Description

groovysh can be started using a -cp option to use a given classpath. (BTW, the option is missing from the docs at http://groovy.codehaus.org/Groovy+Shell

However it is rather cumbersome to use this mechanism to start groovysh to e.g. use a more convenient xml parser or such.

So I can think of some solutions:

• add an option to use the latest of all libraries in ~/.groovy/grapes
• add an option to use specific grapes on startup, which would download those if necessary and then put them on the classpath
• provide a virtual environment tool that sets the classpath according to a definition file defining the grapes to be used.

Thoughts?