Steps towards integrating Kulla into JDK9

[Robert Field]

Hearing that you've had positive responses to jshell and hearing no 
objections on this list, let's definitely go with jshell for the tool name.

As to the name of the package, that depends where the center is.  For 
someone wanting to look at how the tool is implemented jdk.jshell would be 
right. For an IDE using the evaluation API, jdk.eval or something like that 
would be appropriate. I think eval applies to both, but jshell only applies 
to the tool.

You reference consistency with other tills like javadoc. The doclet API is 
an API provided by the javadoc tool for doclets that it launches. The 
compiler API is an API for launching the javac tool.  In contrast, the 
jshell tool is built on the Kulla API.  Example of vs implementation of.

-Robert



On April 22, 2015 11:50:54 PM Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:

> I have been shopping the name jshell around and it seems to sit well.
>
> I suggest we take this farther -- call the module JDK.jshell as well. This 
> is consistent with other tools, like javadoc, which are both command line 
> tools and libraries.  And I think it is more evocative than eval, which is 
> very generic.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Apr 23, 2015, at 2:21 AM, Robert Field <robert.field at oracle.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have just pushed a change that moves the Kulla source and test files 
> into their designated places in the langtools directory structure.
> >
> > The module is jdk.eval -- so the source files can be found under 
> src/jdk.eval/
> >
> > The source packages are:
> >    API:                        jdk.eval
> >    implementation:    jdk.internal.eval.impl and 
> jdk.internal.eval.impl.remote
> >    REPL tool:              jdk.internal.eval.jshell
> >
> > The latter is up for debate.  Brian suggested the name jshell for the 
> REPL tool, the more it has sat in my head the more I like it, there is 
> nothing cognitively nor linguistically natural about REPL.
> >
> > The tests have been moved to test/jdk/eval
> > I have flatten the one stress test into this.
> >
> > The idea is to have the normal make scripts also build Kulla.  This does 
> not currently work, a "make images" falls over almost immediately.  Anyone 
> with experience that can help with this, please step forward.  Note: part 
> of what needs to happen is that jline need to be rolled into the JDK; 
> Though this is not the immediate failure.
> >
> > For now, I have adjusted the old scripts to the new locations, so, 
> repl/scripts/   compile.sh  run.sh test.sh still work when run from repl/
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Robert
> >
> >