Generic plugin for running any command in the system

Question

Originally submitted to Google Code by on 22 Sep 2009

This kind of a general purpose plugin coul be used for running tests (until issue 57 is resolved), updating from/committing to version control, starting external tools, etc. For example Eclipse has this kind of a system for running anything.

A part of the implementation could be 'Run' menu containing a tool for creating and editing run configurations. It should also be possible to save different configuration under this menu with name, create toolbar buttons for them, and run at least the latest executed configuration via a shortcut (ala ctrl-f11 in Eclipse).

I'll target this initially for 0.19 because this ought to be relatively easy to implement (easier that a good plugin for running tests). Can be descouped if there is need.

Answer 1

Originally submitted to Google Code by bryan.oakley on 22 Sep 2009

I've got a general purpose script-writing-and-running plugin -- I don't remember if I showed that to you or not when you were here. It only works on unix right now though, but it might be easy to port to windows. It just pipes commands to a spawned shell, though maybe that's not something that's doable on windows (I'm not much of a windows programmer to know for sure).

If you're interested I think I can make it available. There's lots of room for improvement but its pretty decent for a first attempt.