Re: Package manager for OSX

On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 14:24, Markus Fischer wrote: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 10:59:42AM +0200, Bertrand Mansion wrote : > > +-----------+----------+ > > 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. > > I've to agree here. Though the format of e.g. 'pear > remote-list' looks ok to read from a terminal it's pretty bad > if you want to post-process it. Null lines like > +----------------------+---------+ or multiple occurences > like | PACKAGE | VERSION | don't do any good. Do > we really need that pretty output? Doesn't just > Packagename (tab/space mix) Version does it too ? > > $ pear remote-list > Archive_Tar 0.9 > Auth 1.0.2 > Auth_HTTP 1.0 > [...] > > no page delimiter, no headline ? This output is meant for humans, not programs. If we need a format that is easy to parse, we should make one that is _really_ easy to parse. I'll make an XML version (I have a feeling CSV could become ugly pretty fast). - Stig -- Stig Sæther Bakken, Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway http://pear.php.net/wishlist.php/ssb