2015/11/28

DISCLAIMER: These notes are from the defunct k8 project which precedes SquirrelJME. The notes for SquirrelJME start on 2016/02/26! The k8 project was effectively a Java SE 8 operating system and as such all of the notes are in the context of that scope. That project is no longer my goal as SquirrelJME is the spiritual successor to it.

14:29

I wonder if I can write a groovysh script (which uses groovy) to execute the build system from various VMs and such.

14:48

Seems it can be done, I just have to make sure I avoid some newer features in case an older groovy is used for example.

14:50

I could potentially for the command line write a copy of Groovy and have that act as the primary interpreter shell for stuff such as file handling. Depends on how shell friendly the language is with simple loops. It would be more fitting with Java and would also be more powerful than say shell scripts. Could also be merged into the kernel so that there is a pre-existing interface that could be used in rescue mode for example. Groovy is Java code so it lacks stuff such as "ls".

15:06

Actually I can have a POSIX compatible system and still have my multiple root planned structure. POSIX has // as a root component which is system specific. This means I can fill / with the minimum of

Everything else including system configurations and such will basically be based in //@system/. All of the volumes which are available would then be under //.

16:09

The problem with Groovy is figuring out the path of the script I just executed.

16:15

It may be possible to do this by looking at the classpath potentially. However this gives /usr/share/groovy/lib/groovy-1.8.6.jar which is not useful at all. Looking online it may be possible that getClass().protectionDomain.codeSource.location.path does this. That does work as it gives /home/steven/k8/hairball.gsh. For safety I should probably verify it and then request a system property for example.

18:56

I have a bit of a headache this day.

23:34

For some reason I cannot execute the first stage. The exit value is just First stage exited with status 1..

23:51

Forgot about the Process I/O streams, I have a dumper for that now. And the result is the lack of the exedir.