SPELL=hotwire VERSION=0.700 SOURCE=$SPELL-$VERSION.zip SOURCE_DIRECTORY=$BUILD_DIRECTORY/$SPELL-$VERSION SOURCE_URL[0]=http://hotwire-shell.googlecode.com/files/$SOURCE SOURCE_HASH=sha512:5161af8bb46edaafa57b46b26680005da7af27725f320266c185a8676a0db3011a1e8eed243e73aaaa2d3be6eb4b342c57dfcf5d8943cd9f20554d7f339d2657 WEB_SITE=http://hotwire-shell.org ENTERED=20080201 LICENSE[0]=GPL KEYWORDS="console" SHORT="an object-oriented hypershell" cat << EOF Hotwire is an object-oriented hypershell. It is a shell designed for systems programming (files, processes), and thus it is in the same conceptual category of software as the Unix shell+terminal and Windows PowerShell. The goal of the Hotwire project though is to create a better systems programming shell than both Unix and PowerShell. We call it a hyper-shell because Hotwire blends the concepts of a systems-oriented shell with a modern graphical user interface display. It takes advantage of your desktop environment rather than being a text box. It retains some advantageous attributes of a shell such as keyboard command orientation, interactivity, completion, and scripting. From an implementation perspective, at the heart of Hotwire is the concept of asynchronous object-oriented pipeline processing. Layered on top of this in a tightly integrated fashion is a graphical display, control and introspection system. EOF