Re: Mailutils new competitor

[Alain Magloire]

Bonjour

> On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:31:14AM -0500, Sam Roberts wrote:
> 
> > I'm just musing, is there really a problem to be solved?
> 
> The problem is that with the mailutils API being a moving target, it's 
> quite hard to keep the documentation up to date.  I'm having alot of 
> trouble figuring out which functions to code to.  If the documentation 

8-)
So did you decide on which language hydrant will be code in ?
Last it was C++, which is the one I would advocate for.
If you come up with a plan, I maybe able to help.

> were trivial to update (like it is with Javadoc) to add comments, the 
> Alain has said he will use it. =)

I'm ready to make the effort, but my experience tells me you will
have a hard time converting the non-believers.  Unless the tool
is really good and can generate really really, I mean really good doc.

> 
> The problem exists for just about every GNU library.

Agreed.

Ok OT, got grep-2.5c beta out cool !!
I can do stuff like :

# grep --color alain /etc/passwd
or
# grep --include=*.c main .
# grep --exclude=*.h '^#define' src
or
# grep --perl-regexp 'I hate perl' file

EOT off to bed.

PS: Can you drop it on alpha ;-)
http://staff.qnx.com/~alain/grep-2.5c.tar.gz
I know ... I know, I will get around with kerberos, ssh, opensh
savanah etc ...  But meanwhile even oasis is refusing me access ;-( snif.

-- 
au revoir, alain
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