Subject: Re: sysinst maintainer?
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-install
Date: 08/17/1998 20:05:46
Jason Thorpe writes:
> On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 19:08:51 -0400
> "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm wondering whether, at some point, we might want to look a bit more
> > at alternatives to the wide use of subprocess calls we make.
> >
> > BTW, no offense to Phil intended, but we might want to look at whether
> > some of the standard curses menu/window packages that come with
> > ncurses might make some of this easier. (Or maybe not!)
>
> ...or menuc, etc. can be changed to emit calls to them.
>
> Really, having a menu meta-language is _WAY COOL_, and I'm really glad that
> we have such a useful tool in our source tree! Hats off to Phil!
The metalanguage part *is* cool.
Perry