Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: permit rpm to be invoked as a simple REPL shell (#477)

2018-08-15 Thread Panu Matilainen
And yet those applications would still need to implement their own since they operate on a different level (repo contents instead of local rpms). Supporting multiple operations from the command like (ala #451 ) is the more rpm-like way of doing it anyway. -- You are receiving this because you

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: permit rpm to be invoked as a simple REPL shell (#477)

2018-08-15 Thread Panu Matilainen
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Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: permit rpm to be invoked as a simple REPL shell (#477)

2018-08-12 Thread Jeff Johnson
If rpm supplied a simple REPL, exposed in the API, then there would be no need to reimplement the same REPL stack (usually imperfectly) in multiple applications, in multiple implementation languages. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email direct

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: permit rpm to be invoked as a simple REPL shell (#477)

2018-08-12 Thread Igor Gnatenko
IMO this should be done in high-level tools (like dnf) instead. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/477#issuecomment-412346708_

[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: permit rpm to be invoked as a simple REPL shell (#477)

2018-07-23 Thread Jeff Johnson
This RFE suggests creating a DSL (with commands like "install", "query", etc) to process multiple commands from a single executable invocation. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/rpm-software-