At 13:15 Uhr -0600 04.03.2002, Ken Williams wrote: >On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 12:23 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote: >> >>I think it might be wise to wait for 10.2 and see if we get a >>Perl<->Obj-C bridge. Otherwise, I'm not convinced we currently have >>a good enough way of communicating between Fink and a GUI. > >Why not just communicate through shell commands? That seems to be >the official interface for Fink anyway. I'm not sure what it would >buy us to use the Perl interface directly, except that we wouldn't >have to worry about quoting shell arguments.
For one, if you just parse the output of fink, there are many many information you can't gather this way. I.e. you only see the "tip of the iceberg". Also, you add another layer of communication, which not only slows us down, but it also means that there is a lot of potential breakage possible, e.g. if the Fink output format changes. Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
