On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 07:37:22PM -0500, Dan Espen wrote: > Thomas Adam <notificati...@github.com> writes: > > > FVWM was written before any formal message parsing libraries existed. > > Currently, the communication protocol that FVWM uses is a packed structure > > which is shoved down a pipe, which the receiving end has registered > > interest in by locking on to various > > messages which are sent. > > > > Other libraries exist to abstract away this message construction, such as > > msgpack which allows for other binary data to be considered (rather than > > packing unsigned longs down a pipe, which is how FVWM does this currently). > > > > Another benefit is that other languages have native msgpack bindings, which > > would allow for agnostic FVWM APIs to be created to allow scripting in any > > language. This is similar to how neovim does things, for example.
Please don't forget a way to just send text from a shell script without having to link with some library. Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt
