Nuts Package Manager v0.8.5.0

[thevpc]

This is a new refactored version with focus on library usability:
Main features:

• TSON support out of the box
• NSession & NWorkspace context (no more passed as parameters
• Enhanced boot wit a new project nuts-boot
  Other features include :
• ADDED: added NSession::isLogTermLevel, NSession::isVerboseTerm and equivalent for file log as well
• FIXED: fixed ANSI support for resetLine in Swing Terminal Panel
• ADDED: boot option (--boot-repository) to help considering this repo only to create the workspace (at create time)
• ADDED: NRepository::isTemporary
• ADDED: NPath::writeObject|NPath::writeMsg|NPath::writeText to handle efficient file writing (and or appending)
• ADDED: better support in NRef for primitive type ( NIntRef has an inc method for instance)
• ADDED: better added support for --@filepath format in commandline to embed files ars arguments
• ADDED: better support of windows in nserver
• ADDED: added support for ps and kill on windows, linux and macos
• ADDED: added support of dependency resolution regardless of current OS environment (needed for bundles creation)
• ADDED: added foundations for I18n
• ADDED: added new runtime repository that supports (for now) netbeans and tomcat
• ADDED: added simple Levenstein implementation to detect typos of boot commandline arguments and provide meaningful suggestions
• ADDED: added rememberMe key in NAsk to help remembering user's input to avoid asking the same questions multiple times in same session.
• ADDED: added simple templating (NTemplate) in NExpr to help manage text templating with simple expressions
• ADDED: added new tool ndoc and nsite-lib (the related library) to generate statically html websites...
• FIXED: enhanced NExprs toolkit to support complex expressions, and is now default for ndoc
• DEPRECATED: deprecated for removal nclown (was really never used)
• DEPRECATED: deprecated for removal old docusaurus website and replace with one new based on ndoc (a tool by nuts!!)
• REMOVED: removed NFetch::isDependencies, NFetch::isEffective, NSearch::isDependencies, NSearch::isEffective (now information is loaded in lazy mode)
• CHANGED: When generating preview jar, it will support natively thevpc.net
• ADDED: added option --preview-repo | -U to help simplifying preview mode installation.
• CHANGED: nuts-app now depends only on nuts-boot
• CHANGED: extracted nuts boot that does only load runtime all within its API. This will make simpler api upgrades
• CHANGED: nuts is exploded into nuts-boot (minimal bootstrap app), nuts (api library), nuts-lib (common library), two applications : nuts-app (minimal) and nuts-app-full (including runtime)
• WARNING: The OSS License has changed from APACHE2 to LGPL3
• REMOVED: cleanup and removal of javax.security (and all SecurityManager staff) as It's marked for removal for JDK 24
• CHANGED: simplified NPathSPI interface to help simpler implementation of, let's say, in-memory files for instance
• FIXED: fixed NStringBuilder::lines()
• CHANGED: enhanced and simplified NProgressMonitor API
• ADDED: added support for TSON
• CHANGED: introduced NAppRunOptions to help customize application behaviour when running NApplication (exit on termination, throw error when found, handle error and only show a short message,etc)
• ADDED: added NPath::ensureEmptyDirectory, NPath::ensureEmptyFile to help delete file/folder content is a clean manner
• ADDED: Now you can customize NOptional Message with NOptional::withMessage
• FIXED: fixed several issues related to utility methods that generate NException whereas the workspace is not yet created
• CHANGED: for now on, nuts jar will include information about if it supports automatically preview features. You still can disable them using repo filters.
• CHANGED: refactored nuts to separate nuts-boot, nuts-api (nuts), nus-lib and nuts-runtime

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This discussion was created from the release Nuts Package Manager v0.8.5.0.