On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 05:54:11PM +0300, Alexander V. Lukyanov wrote: > > Global filtering is very useful to have; without it, we couldn't do things > > like "command | pipe > ftp://url";. (Adding URL redirection but saying > > " ... but you can't combine it with pipes" wouldn't be very good.) > > Ok, finally I can see where the complication comes from. You want local > filter with remote output. I think either FileCopy should be improved > to handle data flow chain or a new pair of FileCopyPeer's should be > created to copy data from one to other to support chains of FileCopy's.
I'll play around with these ideas. (The second looks better to me, since it doesn't add more complication to FileCopy.) The part that could use the most simplification is the for_each stuff, and I'm not sure this would help that. (It could clean up the stuff that's currently implemented with a pipe, though.) I'm thinking of something like an OutputFilter derivation to do just for_each handling. > Anyway, I'd like to make another major release before integrating that. I agree, there have been a lot of small fixes. -- Glenn Maynard
