Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:25:51 -0700 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone?? Message-ID: <20101112012551.GD35128@guilt.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20101110180915.00005202@unknown> References: <201011100009.oAA09mfG024502@mail.r-bonomi.com> <op.vlxpejtrhalquq@n200> <20101110175717.GB23184@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20101110180915.00005202@unknown>
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--x4pBfXISqBoDm8sr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 06:09:15PM +0000, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:57:17 -0800 > Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com> wrote: >=20 > > However, for automating repeated tasks (as distinguished from running > > automated tests of the GUI itself), scripting a GUI is the wrong way > > to do it. It's layering on an entirely unnecessary layer of > > abstraction (the UI), and then working around it. >=20 > This is why at least on Windows there's often a C/COM/.NET API that > allows the same level of control that the GUI provides, so that > customers can automate tasks. It's too bad such APIs require so much more knowledge, and present so much more of a barrier to entry for automating tasks, than a simpler CLI filter's interface provides via something like the Unix pipeline. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --x4pBfXISqBoDm8sr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkzcl58ACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKUTHQCcC8T0B8HgZ8RCwgK2MR6PNTPT RSIAnjlznQlKpFO2cohvneEeQdAvmnMt =sF1w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --x4pBfXISqBoDm8sr--
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