should we make a dev.jbang.ext jar library that provides some basic 'os' / terminal functions?

[maxandersen]

https://github.com/google/zx which is a 'use node.js to write scriptskinda thing made me play with https://gitlab.com/ongresinc/fluent-process to which I added a$()` method to allow simpler shell calls in java:

$("echo hello; echo world")
                        .pipe$("cat")
                        .stream()

perfect for jbang but its in custom fork atm.

in zx they also have easy method for fetching http requests, ie. fetch('http://wttr.in') and question methods which https://github.com/awegmann/consoleui maybe be a good alternative for, minimist for parsing...picocli, and a few other bits

we could recommend user to import all these various packages but i'm wondering if we should make a maven module that import them all at once and/or even fork or wrap them to make a simpler unified version of them available under dev.jbang.ext or similar ?

....what I was thinking was if we had this set of "good" libs then make it so if you named your .jsh file for .jshx then we would automatically add them and thus make the files even shorter/simpler.

For now just an idea that been bumping around my head.....wdyt ?

[quintesse]

YEs, that has always seemed like an interesting idea to me.

[maxandersen]

So fork, wrap or depend ?

[quintesse]

Personally I'd say depend first and wrap where it results in much simpler code. Forking seems a bit of a maintenance nightmare to me.

[maxandersen]

yeah but i.e. fluentprocess is implemented quite protective so need to be a fork if wanna get the shell functionality.

[quintesse]

I what way is it protective?

[maxandersen]

its classes a package protected.

[maxandersen]

also just realized java does not have a decent way to show an image.

python its: image.show();

java is 10ish+ lines of jframe/awt mess.

using/recommending imagej might be the way forward there.