[darcs-devel] darcs robot command

[Ben Coburn]

On Aug 2, 2007, at 09:56, David Roundy wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 03:35:50AM -0700, Ben Coburn wrote:
>> Some thinking out loud regarding command aliasing and driving darcs
>> with external code....
>>
>> Instead of "tacking on" XML output to more commands, maybe it would
>> be better to have a command for driving darcs with bi-directional XML
>> messages.
>
> One question would be whether this is actually preferable to a  
> libdarcs.
> It's almost certainly more effort, probably harder to get right, and
> possibly less powerful and harder to use.
>

If libdarcs is on it's way, by all means focus effort there instead.

I suggested this because I don't know when a better solution like  
libdarcs might be available, and because I was just writing code to  
parse the interactive record prompt... very ugly (and brittle) but  
possible.

Regards, Ben Coburn