Re: Lightweight IPC for scripting

Pascal J.Bourguignon <[email protected]> writes:

>> Some apps do CORBA, some apps listen on sockets, some
>> apps reread their config file when sent certain signals, some apps you
>> can start twice and the second instance will communicate its command
>> line args to the first, and some apps (e.g. GNOME, KDE stuff) use some
>> vast framework which handles it all in a
>> you-shouldn't-care-about-the-internals way
>> 
>> None of them have seen pervasive uptake, which makes me feel better
>> about inventing yet another. 
>
> Decent  supportS for  scripting  application, there  is. Perhaps  what
> you're missing is a common standard?

That's part of it.  The other part is that many of these languages are
ad hoc, limited, buggy, and in some cases suicidally stupid
(e.g. shell quoting rules).  Try using the mozilla xremote stuff to
open a url in a named window, for example.

> What  about just  

I was with you that far.  The rest of your mail conformed to no
definition of "just" that I've ever seen before.


-dan

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