On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 01:43 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote: > > On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 07:15 PM, Ken Williams wrote: >> Why not just communicate through shell commands? That seems to be the >> official interface for Fink anyway. > > For humans, yes. It's not exactly terribly good for IPC.
Agreed. But it wouldn't be too hard to switch later from shell-interface to Perl-interface if one becomes available. >> I'm not sure what it would buy us to use the Perl interface directly, >> except that we wouldn't have to worry about quoting shell arguments. > > Uhm... Perhaps you'd like to have a look at Fink's source before you > start making comments like this :-) You're referring to Fink's internal use of shell commands, maybe? I'm not sure what you're driving at. In any case, I feel like there's not a whole lot of difference between calling Fink Perl methods directly and calling them from a bunch of Perl one-liners, except from an aesthetic point of view. But maybe there's something I haven't considered. -Ken _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
