Re: uuu shell and google summer code 2006

Hello,


Thanks your interest.


>> I don't think Google will seriously consider it for the SoC.
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Actually I will present it as a linux shell project. As it will be written in
python it will easy to port.

>> Creating a translator for this type of command interpreter to
>> something more "conventional" would be extremely difficult.
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Yes, I agree with you, it will be a big challenge.


>> are you simply going to emulate a single File object?
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I don't think that I will emulate a single file object. Because it seems that
you need sometimes to know the file format.

Examples:

nirvana_lithium.mp3 play # In order to play music you need to know the file
format and then
                # apply a python method ( play_mp3() )to the mp3_file object
                # internally it will something like: mp3_file.play_mp3()

nirvana_lithium.mp3 duplicate   # it will duplicates in the current directory

or

nirvana_lithium.mp3 duplicateAt:/home/narke
                                  # There you don't care about the file format
                                      # you just copy a file byte by byte

(I will probably test the file format only when it's needed)


>> how would something like piping work?
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I thought about that end I concluded that (don't kill me) there is no need of
piping.
Most of things can be done with appropriate methodes.

Examples:

------------------- UNiX ----------------------------- Hope next uuu ----------

file_to_send.txt | mail narke@xxxxxxx  ++   file_to_send.txt sendTo: aa@xxxxxx

ls /etc | more                         ++   /etc listProgressively

ls /usr/src/linux | grep .c            ++  /usr/src/linux listByOccurrencies: .c

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Don't worry about long parameters, I hope to implement synatax completion.



>> redirection?
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I must admit that I don't considered it. May be like classical shells?



        Konstantin Tcholokachvili.




P.S: Some objects will be hard-coded, like computer wich will have methods like:
halt, restart...