Daniel Nouri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree as well. To overcome the problem of a file seperator, I'd > suggest to call the program once for every action (install, remove, > upgrade).
That won't scale up to well. Think of the update-menus example -- I don't want to call that for each and every document. > > Sounds good and flexible IMHO. Maybe doc-base can provide a parser > > class for it as well to avoid that every program needs to reinvent > > the wheel. > > I don't see how a parser (that would be written in, say, Perl) fits > into my program as a module. Communication over stdin? A parser > for everyone would be nice but how could it be done cleanly? If we're concerned about a parser, I think the best thing would be to provide an XML data interchange format. XML parsers are cheap and plentiful. Or is that too much? -- ...Adam Di Carlo...<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.......<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
