# Command-set 0.10.2 Released

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command-set version 0.10.2 has been released!

CommandSet is a user interface framework. Its focus is a DSL for  
defining commands, much like Rake or RSpec. A default readline based  
terminal interpreter (complete with context sensitive tab completion,  
and the amenities of readline: history editing, etc) is included. It  
could very well be adapted to interact with CGI or a GUI - both are  
planned. CommandSet has a lot of very nice features. First is the  
domain-specific language for defining commands and sets of commands.  
Those sets can further be neatly composed into larger interfaces, so  
that useful or standard commands can be resued. Optional application  
modes, much like Cisco’s IOS, with a little bit more flexibility.  
Arguments have their own sub-language, that allows them to provide  
interface hints (like tab completion) as well as input validation. On  
the output side of things, CommandSet has a very flexible output  
capturing mechanism, which generates a tree of data as it’s generated,  
even capturing writes to mul  
tiple places at once (even from multiple threads) and keeping  
everything straight. Methods that normally write to stdout are  
interposed and fed into the tree, so you can hack in existing scripts  
with minimal adjustment. The final output can be presented to the user  
in a number of formats, including contextual coloring and indentation,  
or even progress hashes. XML is also provided, although it needs some  
work. Templates are on the way.

Changes:

\*\* Marked release 0.10.2 \*\*

Removed deprecated ‘interruptable’ method from command action blocks

Sorted out threading and formatting.

Added fan\_out and action\_thread to command action blocks - it’s now easy  
to  
run commands that use threads and have formatting work properly

Project: [http://rubyforge.org/project/commandset/](http://rubyforge.org/project/commandset/)  
Homepage: [http://commandset.rubyforge.org/](http://commandset.rubyforge.org/)