Re: [Taverna-hackers] perl script plug-in for Taverna?

[Mark F. <phi...@gm...>]

There is however a perl-like scripting language called Sleep.

Mark

On Aug 1, 2010, at 9:05 PM, Wei Tan <wt...@mc...> wrote:

>  BTW: it seems that https://scripting.dev.java.net/  does not  
> support perl?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wei
>
>
> On 8/1/2010 6:28 PM, Mark Fortner wrote:
>> When I'd the switch to Java 6 planned? If it's going to be a while  
>> you
>> might try BSF as a stopgap measure.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Aug 1, 2010, at 2:50 PM, "Donal K. Fellows"<don...@ma...
>>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 01/08/2010 18:38, Mark Fortner wrote:
>>>> Not that I know of. But it would be nice if there was a more
>>>> generalized
>>>> form of the current beanshell processor. Java has built in support
>>>> for
>>>> scripting languages, and most people are familiar with python or  
>>>> perl
>>>> (not beanshell). There are a wide variety of supported scripting
>>>> languages that make use of the Java VM including (Groovy,  
>>>> JavaScript,
>>>> Sleep (a perl-like language) and Jython). Here's a brief listing:
>>>> https://scripting.dev.java.net/
>>> We've known about this (and wanted to fix it!) for quite a while,
>>> but it's been blocked for a while by Taverna being dependent on
>>> supporting Java 5; the scripting support framework requires Java 6.
>>>
>>> The good news is that we will be removing this blocker in future
>>> releases. The Server is already transitioned (a benefit of it being
>>> a de novo software artefact), the core execution Platform is being
>>> ported, and I'm not quite sure what's involved in moving the
>>> Workbench; GUI development in Java isn't my particular forté. Th 
>>> e no
>>> t-quite-so-good news is that I'm not sure what the timeline for the
>>> transition is.
>>>
>>>> Perhaps we can raise an issue about this if there's enough interest
>>>> from
>>>> the user-community.
>>> Once the blocker problem (Java versioning) is sorted, I'd hope that
>>> the community could provide plugins for the languages they want to
>>> see.
>>>
>>> Donal.
>>> <donal_k_fellows.vcf>
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