From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iq6DO-00075J-QV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:10:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lA8C9afw001093; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 12:09:36 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lA8C7ijT031277 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 12:07:44 GMT Received: from gentoo.org (c-67-171-150-177.hsd1.or.comcast.net [67.171.150.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B90BA65713 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 12:07:43 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 04:07:42 -0800 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] eselect_zenity: alpha eselect GUI Message-ID: <20071108120742.GK5516@supernova> References: <20071108104813.GI5516@supernova> <20071108105454.1844a75c@blueyonder.co.uk> 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071108105454.1844a75c@blueyonder.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 2fb169f7-aa42-41c1-8cef-c76f953add50 X-Archives-Hash: c8769bfcd2972d5d9caaf7766ddfcded On 10:54 Thu 08 Nov , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 02:48:13 -0800 > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > it has to parse eselect output > > Part of the idea behind using standardised output functions was that > they could be replaced. The thought was, rather than trying to parse > console-centric output, you'd swap in a different implementation of the > output functions that fed to, say, ncurses or a GUI. Then you'd swap > the driver logic with something that calls multiple tasks in order > rather than merely doing one thing and then exiting (there's proper > environment isolation to allow that). > > Might be easier to do things that way... I'll look into that. Got any good starting points (files, functions, docs)? Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list