[Melbourne-pm] Runner framework

[Mathew Robertson]

> I need to run a set of 'scripts' on various application directories.
> These scripts can be anything. SQL DDL, XML configuration files to be
> run via a custom program(s), templates to be updated etc...
>
> Some scripts will have pre-requisite  scripts
>
> I need to produce customised logging and error reporting. In most
> cases some attempt should be made at error recovery or roll-back, but
> it varies.
>
> I'd like a to be able to provide a bunch of files containing these
> scripts and some meta-data and have a framework do the heavy lifting
I'll venture out to say "yes and no" - basically what you just described 
was shell-programming.

ie: you want to call specific commands on user-specified directories, 
but with generic tools for execution, logging, rollback...

cheers,
Mathew