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On 10:54 Thu 08 Nov , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 02:48:13 -0800 |
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> Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote: |
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> > it has to parse eselect output |
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> Part of the idea behind using standardised output functions was that |
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> they could be replaced. The thought was, rather than trying to parse |
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> console-centric output, you'd swap in a different implementation of the |
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> output functions that fed to, say, ncurses or a GUI. Then you'd swap |
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> the driver logic with something that calls multiple tasks in order |
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> rather than merely doing one thing and then exiting (there's proper |
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> environment isolation to allow that). |
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> Might be easier to do things that way... |
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I'll look into that. Got any good starting points (files, functions, |
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docs)? |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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