[Monotone-devel] Re: automate stdio, really

[Bruce Stephens]

Thomas Moschny <address@hidden> writes:

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> The basic point of views still remain the same today :) Different
> people have different expectations/needs on how to interface the
> monotone core. Therefore all those interfaces (cmdline gui,
> automate/list for shell script usage, stdio for frontends) do have
> their right to exist. However, we should try to find out what the
> core functionality is that is needed by all these interfaces.

Indeed, and the core idea of using some core interface in C++
(providing something like "automate stdio", I guess), with the rest in
lua, seems potentially a good way to do that.