Add Ammonite to the candidates list.

[lucianenache]

Ammonite is a REPL for Scala, it would be nice to have it provided by sdkman .

link: http://ammonite.io/

I am not sure whether it is possible since only the source code can be retrieved as an archive: https://github.com/lihaoyi/Ammonite/releases/

[marc0der]

I've spoken to @lihaoyi about this before, but he expressed that he wasn't interested in having ammonite on sdkman, preferring people to install it manually.

Personally I think that's a shame, but there is nothing much I can do about this. Ammonite would need to be packaged in a zip or tarball just like all other SDKs (for example the JDK, Scala or SBT).

Perhaps if you took this discussion to the Ammonite github it might be considered again.

[lucianenache]

Hi @marc0der,

Thanks for the clarification, I will try and ask @lihaoyi in regards. Even though if it hasn't happened yet the chances that now it will would be rather slim, and probably there are some maintenance overhead reasons behind the choice.

[domdorn]

Is the only thing blocking this, that ammonite is downloaded directly as a binary and not packaged in a zipfile?
Homebrew handles it like this
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/ammonite-repl.rb