Re: Mailutils new competitor

[Jeff Bailey]

On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 01:38:47AM -0500, Alain Magloire 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.

Still C++.  I've been reading my C++ books to figure out what's the best 
wrapper to put around mailutils.  I'm hoping to post something soon with 
what I think.  I haven't looked at mailutils src code in a long time.

> > 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.

Do you have a sample of "really good doc" that I can see?  that would 
help me focus my thoughts.

> Ok OT, got grep-2.5c beta out cool !!

Excellent!  I haven't looked, is there a command line switch yet to make 
it *always* display the file name (and maybe another one to only display 
the filename for find lists)?  I forget half the time to add the 
/dev/null to:  find . -name \* -exec grep foo '{}' /dev/null \;

> PS: Can you drop it on alpha ;-)

Done.

> 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.

I haven't set you up because it's just as easy to get you onto Oasis.  
Send me your phone number (or you can phone me at work 604-903-6988
pacific time) and I'll phone you on Monday to finish sorting this out.

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