On Tuesday 05 August 2003 20:06, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >Despite my previous post I have decided to take a look at learning a > >little of > >ncurses. My only concern with jumping in a creating a version of the > >script > >is that we will end up duplicating work. What we could do with is a C > >library of functions for doing the 'bits' of the install. Then > >interfaces in > >various languages could be written to utilise the library. > > My thought is to have glisrc (the backend) be written in shell script. It > is designed to run non-interactively, and you log its output and do > frontend over it. The advantage to bash script is portability (any arch > can use it), language neutrality (any language can call it), and it is > just most simply written in bash. To do it in another language will > require a lot more work. What are your thoughts? > > Nathaniel
Yeah it sounds perfect to me, I will get on with learning ncurses for a bit, but seriously no garentees on this - if there is someone that wants to try it, please do, I'll just follow along. -- Tom Wesley
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