[wildfly-dev] Windows Batch Scripts

Brian Stansberry brian.stansberry at redhat.com
Wed May 29 13:03:49 EDT 2013


Good points. The only reason I saw to leave the old .bat scripts around 
was compatibility, but if we move them, that's gone, so there's not much 
point in keeping them in the distribution.

On 5/29/13 11:19 AM, ssilvert at redhat.com wrote:
> +1
>
> I don't think downloading PowerShell is too much to ask.  If you are
> crazy enough to use WinXP, you shouldn't be surprised that you have to
> add something to make it work.
>
> On 5/29/2013 12:12 PM, Jorge Solórzano wrote:
>> Well I think that if PowerShell will bring improvements to windows
>> scripts, and that to this date we consider WildFly as an advanced
>> application server, then is fine to make a requirement to have
>> powershell installed.
>>
>>
>> Jorge Solórzano
>> http://www.jorsol.com
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:51 AM, James R. Perkins <jperkins at redhat.com
>> <mailto:jperkins at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     PowerShell is available as a separate download[1] for WinXP FWIW.
>>     Not that we should force the use, but it is available.
>>
>>     [1]: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7217
>>
>>
>>     On 05/29/2013 08:35 AM, Jason Greene wrote:
>>>     I think we should also move the .bat files into a separate WinXP directory (the only platform that JDK7 supports which doesn't have powershell) to avoid accidental clicking or execution.
>>>
>>>     On May 29, 2013, at 10:28 AM, Brian Stansberry<brian.stansberry at redhat.com>  <mailto:brian.stansberry at redhat.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>>     No, all .bat scripts. The basic goal would be to make them as close in
>>>>     functionality to the .sh scripts as possible.
>>>>
>>>>     On 5/29/13 10:21 AM, Spolti wrote:
>>>>>     We need rewrite all .sh script in psh?
>>>>>
>>>>>     On 05/29/2013 11:29 AM, Brian Stansberry wrote:
>>>>>>     We've planned for a while to create powershell variants for all our
>>>>>>     Windows scripts and to basically deprecate the old ones.[1] If someone
>>>>>>     wants to take that on, please contact Tomaz Cerar. He's unavailable for
>>>>>>     a couple weeks, so if you urgently want to take it on, let me know.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     [1]https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-676
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     On 5/27/13 6:59 AM, Spolti wrote:
>>>>>>>     :),
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     Is the best way use powershell?
>>>>>>>     Or we can put a dependency in standalone/domain.bacth, or something like
>>>>>>>     that?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     On 05/27/2013 08:52 AM, Nicklas Karlsson wrote:
>>>>>>>>     Only pre-installed on Windows7/Server 2008+
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>     On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Spolti <filippespolti at gmail.com  <mailto:filippespolti at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>     <mailto:filippespolti at gmail.com>  <mailto:filippespolti at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>           All windows versions have powershell instaled by default?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>           On 05/27/2013 07:26 AM, Tristan Tarrant wrote:
>>>>>>>>>     Powershell ?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>     On 05/24/2013 01:37 PM, Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>     The problem with spaces in the path on Windows always surfaces
>>>>>>>>           one way or another. I think
>>>>>>>>>>     we need better automated testing for the scripts.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>     I agree with Stan, switching to .exe is a bad idea.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>     On 17/05/2013 14:29,ssilvert at redhat.com  <mailto:ssilvert at redhat.com>
>>>>>>>>           <mailto:ssilvert at redhat.com>  <mailto:ssilvert at redhat.com>  wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>     On 5/16/2013 9:51 PM, James R. Perkins wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>     Hello All,
>>>>>>>>>>>>     There was an issue found with the Windows batch scripts if
>>>>>>>>           the JBOSS_HOME path had a space
>>>>>>>>>>>>     or a ) in it. I created a fix and PR to fix the issue [1].
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>     If anyone has any good or better ideas on how to make this
>>>>>>>>           cleaner please let me know. We
>>>>>>>>>>>>     are toying with the idea of just using an EXE instead of
>>>>>>>>           batch scripts, but any input from
>>>>>>>>>>>>     someone with more Windows batch scripting experience than me
>>>>>>>>           is welcome.
>>>>>>>>>>>     Whatever you do, don't turn it into an EXE.  For better or
>>>>>>>>           worse, customers have always
>>>>>>>>>>>     relied on being able to hack the batch script.  I think you'd
>>>>>>>>           get a lot of pushback.
>>>>>>>>>>>>     [1]:https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly/pull/4520
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