> On Jul 25, 2019, at 7:22 AM, Graham Leggett <minf...@sharp.fm> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Disclaimer: I don’t have time to do this right now, but at some point soon I
> would like to get something like this done.
>
> I propose the creation of, in addition to apr and apr-util, the apr-tools
> project.
>
> apr-tools would contain a series of command line tools that correspond with
> many of the capabilities of the apr library. Such tools might include:
>
> - escape: A tool that can escape and unescape data based on the apr_escape.h
> API.
> - encode: A tool that can encode/decode based on the apr_encode API.
> - dbd: A tool that can perform database queries through the apr_dbd
> astraction, etc.
> - etc
>
> The expectation would be that these tools would provide common, cross
> platform (unix, Mac, Windows, etc) command line tools that are designed to
> get stuff done in a common, sensible way.
>
> First question is thoughts? Bonkers? Good idea?
I think a good idea.
>
> Second question is structure. Part of APR? Alongside APR?
I would think alongside... after all, you don't need to hack APR to be able to
implement apr-tools.
>
> Regards,
> Graham
> —
>
