Re: Package manager for OSX

le 18/06/02 0:01, Stig S. Bakken à ssb@fast.no a écrit : > On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 15:59, Bertrand Mansion wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have made some tests for a PEAR package manager on MACOSX. It is written >> in Objective-C so it is supposed to be fast. It will rely on the pear >> command line tool. It makes requests on the XMLRPC server but it also has a >> cache system. At the moment it doesn't do a lot, just package info browsing. >> >> I hope I will find the time to finish it soon. Here is a screenshot for >> those interested: http://www.mamasam.com/screenshot1.jpg > > Maybe CSV or XML output from the "pear" command would be interesting to > you for easier parsing? Hi Stig, +-----------+----------+ I have had some difficulties to parse the | Package | Version | table. +-----------+----------+ The Apple Cocoa framework doesn't have regular expressions and uses a thing called NSScanner which scans your lines up to the string you defined. Then, you can take the result it finds. The main problem is that you can't define wildcards like in regex. This is really cheap. CSV or XML output would both be very useful, probably not only for MACOSX. I have a small preference for XML but it should be very light (not xml-rpc). If you find the time to add an option to the pear command-line tool to output xml or csv, it will really make everything easier for future GUI developers. Take care, Bertrand Mansion Mamasam