Jamie Webb wrote:
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 08:46:21PM +0100, Olivier Lefevre wrote:
Yes I was thinking of it in a GUI context.
There is a third option you have not considered: communicating over a
bi-directional socket using a custom wire protocol. In practice that
still amounts to designing an API but implementation-wise that should be
much easier.
I very much doubt it's easier to implement, but it is a lot more
platform-independent than providing a C API. I'd recommend using
something well-known such as XML-RPC rather than a custom protocol
though.
You could do one further and build a pure XML-based API. Most of the
commands can already produce an --xml-output, why not create some smart
looking --xml-input? Then you could use it for server-less command line
scripting as well as running XML-RPC-style requests with a simple
XML-RPC to --xml-input listener server.
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