Re: future of dhelp
Daniel Nouri <daniel.nouri@con-fuse.org> writes:
> I agree as well. To overcome the problem of a file seperator, I'd
> suggest to call the program once for every action (install, remove,
> upgrade).
That won't scale up to well. Think of the update-menus example -- I
don't want to call that for each and every document.
> > Sounds good and flexible IMHO. Maybe doc-base can provide a parser
> > class for it as well to avoid that every program needs to reinvent
> > the wheel.
>
> I don't see how a parser (that would be written in, say, Perl) fits
> into my program as a module. Communication over stdin? A parser
> for everyone would be nice but how could it be done cleanly?
If we're concerned about a parser, I think the best thing would be to
provide an XML data interchange format. XML parsers are cheap and
plentiful. Or is that too much?
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