From: Rob Sanheim <rsanheim@...>
Date: 2009-10-22T23:46:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Boson 0.1 - Initial Release

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On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:25 PM, ghorner <gabriel.horner@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>  I'm introducing Boson, a command/task framework similar to rake and
> thor which executes commands from the commandline and irb.
> To install: gem install boson
>
> Features:
> * Commands are just methods on main which means they're executed
> similarly from the commandline and irb.
> * Command libraries, which are just modules, are written in non-dsl
> ruby which allows for easy testing
>  and use outside of boson.
> * Comes with default commands to load, search, list and install
> commands and libraries.
> * Commands can be full-blown commandline apps thanks to powerful
> options  and hirb's views.
> * Commands can have views toggled without adding view code to your
> original command.
> * Command libraries are social as a user can install them from a url
> and then customize command
>  names and options without changing the original library.
>
>
Can you explain why I would use this over thor?

Thanks,
Rob

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