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[Groff] Re: groff as a library? /* OT */


From: Michail Vidiassov
Subject: [Groff] Re: groff as a library? /* OT */
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:40:19 +0300 (MSK)
User-agent: Alpine 2.00 (OSX 1167 2008-08-23)

Dear Ralph,

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
`groff -Z' produces that, doesn't it?
Yes, but the question was about groff-like _library_.
Oh, sorry, I come from an OS where programs do one thing and do it well
and get plumbed together.  Can you not call out of your language to get
groff to do the work as a separate process and then read its results?

While you have a point that in UNIX piping information around is traditional and fits well into overall system design, it is not the universally best way. Having to serialise-unserialise the data, handling error messages and aborted processing, creating/deleteing internal-use files with configuration information for programs you call, increased system load (when it matters) - just the first drawbacks that come to mind.

          Sincerely, Michail




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