I admit to having never used powershell: is there an easy way to call it from Julia?
-s On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 00:38:50 UTC+1, Tony Kelman wrote: > > It's likely to be quite a bit less efficient than going through the Win32 > C API, but you can also do much of this through powershell which should be > quicker to write: > https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd315270.aspx > > > > On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 9:22:10 AM UTC-7, David Anthoff wrote: >> >> I think there should be a WindowsAPI.jl package where people can put all >> wrappers for the low level C interfaces that the Windows API defines. It >> could (over time) hold all the data structure definitions, and wrappers for >> the various Win32 function calls. >> >> >> >> Maybe a higher level registry package could then depend on that >> WindowsAPI.jl package? >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On >> Behalf Of *Simon Byrne >> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 12, 2015 3:55 AM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* [julia-users] Access Windows registry from Julia? >> >> >> >> The Windows registry useful to determine installation paths of other >> software and whatnot. I've hacked together some code using the REG QUERY >> command: >> >> >> https://github.com/JuliaStats/RCall.jl/blob/e4ba35cf45ca2eb041f660642449b8259c2f30e3/deps/build.jl#L13 >> >> but it is somewhat complicated (and potentially unreliable) to parse. >> >> >> >> Has anyone had any luck using the C interface? It looks a little >> complicated, so if anyone has any examples, I would be grateful. I guess >> ideally we would want to wrap the C interface into package, similar to >> _winreg in Python: >> >> https://docs.python.org/2/library/_winreg.html >> >> >> >> Perhaps we need an "up for grabs packages" list? >> >> >> >> s >> >> >> >> P.S. On that note, perhaps we should put the Julia installation path in >> the registry, for other software that might need to find it: both R and >> Python do it. >> >
