Setup command-line interface

2003-01-08 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
I'm a changelog away from finally submitting my variable-size page patch (so give me a few months ;-)), but I just thought I'd bring up an overall design issue. It looks like someone's added some infrastructure for the command-line interface to the GUI interface code (eg WM_APP_UNATTENDED_FINISH).

Re: Setup command-line interface

2003-01-08 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 17:25, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > Agree/Disagree/Flame? Agree but: There are two sets of command line parameters. 1) Drive the 'engine' 2) Drive the GUI. I.e. if I want the GUI to skip site selection, that is not an engine change, it is a GUI change. I do want us to get

Re: Setup command-line interface

2003-01-09 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 21:46, Max Bowsher wrote: > Will the engine have any command line parsing capability? Or will the > GUI/CLI parse the parameters, and make a call to the engine API to tell it > about them? I am undecided what is better. Likewise. Given the wonderful, distributed GetOpt++, we

Re: Setup command-line interface

2003-01-09 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 17:25, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >> Agree/Disagree/Flame? > > Agree Me too. > but: > > There are two sets of command line parameters. > 1) Drive the 'engine' > 2) Drive the GUI. > > I.e. if I want the GUI to skip site selection, that is not an engine