From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GY6IA-0003eF-Uw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 19:32:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9CJUsvj011686; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 19:30:54 GMT Received: from outmail.freedom2surf.net (outmail1.freedom2surf.net [194.106.33.237]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9CJSLJn031228 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 19:28:22 GMT Received: from snowdrop.home (unknown [62.6.163.66]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8E6651667 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:28:21 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:28:17 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paladius (was: GLEP 42?) Message-ID: <20061012202817.501ce099@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <1160667680.16962.32.camel@localhost> References: <51c6d3c5867563dbcdcc62370def11d0@myrddraal.demon.co.uk> <452D2BC9.5060207@gentoo.org> <15FCAB01-0915-4FB7-BD31-189212346F96@gentoo.org> <20061011194442.4c0bd8d9@snowdrop.home> <1160595003.10524.21.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <20061011204619.0c58fdf1@snowdrop.home> <20061011212633.30942d25@snowdrop.home> <20061011221729.4293775e@snowdrop.home> <1160655876.16962.22.camel@localhost> <20061012161845.0df15aaf@snowdrop.home> <1160667680.16962.32.camel@localhost> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.3 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_nxep/.6J96izQ.hBIDNPQ9w"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 2f356203-fb67-4e31-a03b-c68ac5d73f2b X-Archives-Hash: ee96ee881795fcd95e616c452d449f9a --Sig_nxep/.6J96izQ.hBIDNPQ9w Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:41:20 +0200 Natanael Copa wrote: | On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 16:18 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:24:36 +0200 Natanael Copa | > wrote: | > | btw.. I keep hearing about this paladius. Is it more | > | script-friendly than emerge? | >=20 | > Once we get the Ruby interface fleshed out it will be... |=20 | What about shell scripts? |=20 | Is it one (or few) big fat executable that can do everything windows | style, or is it small cooperating executables unix style? It's a .so file (well, several .so files) written in C++, plus supporting bash scripts for ebuildy things. There're several client apps available, most of which are reasonably shell script friendly for small things. For complex tasks you're better off using the API rather than pipes. | Is fancy/pretty features like colors and prytty output more important | than easy-to-use with pipes in shell scripts? The two don't have to be mutually exclusive. Having said that, Ruby is a good shell scripting language... --=20 Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org Web : http://ciaranm.org/ as-needed is broken : http://ciaranm.org/show_post.pl?post_id=3D13 --Sig_nxep/.6J96izQ.hBIDNPQ9w Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFLpdU96zL6DUtXhERAsCHAKCjGPbnN9v1E9HRQwkkBgBZ1n1jIACgpM5a Z0HBD/anqNQ1uXK+Qg0FWXI= =l9xM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_nxep/.6J96izQ.hBIDNPQ9w-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list