On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 06:38:08PM -0700, Jan Dubois wrote: > On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Edward Peschko wrote: > > I noticed that ActiveState had ported Expect to windows, and would > > like to use the perl Expect module natively on win32 rather than write > > a wrapper around Expect (the program). > > > > Who did the Expect translation at ActiveState, and how easy would > > it be to modify IO::Pty to be native on win32? (rather than say, > > using cygwin) > > Expect on Windows effectively acts as a debugger, doing dirty tricks > like hooking system APIs and injecting code into the other processes to > get the level of control required by Expect. It is not simply a pty > emulation. It only tries to look like one. :) > > It was written by our Tcl guys; I don't really know anything about it. > > Cheers,
rrr. Well, all I can say is that I wouldn't mind Perl cheating in the same way, and wrapping up all the messy bits into a module and calling it a Pty.. It's not like perl hasn't cheated this way before. Or perhaps the expect folks abstracting out all the ugly bits so that you could link to a C library that did pseudo-ptys. (this second bit would be especially helpful for other processes that would want to use it, such as vim (vim7 is adding a IDE mode, and it would be great if it could act like expect and screen-scrape debugging output) Could you forward on this message to the expect folks? I wouldn't mind at least talking to them about it. Ed _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
