Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 12:51:34 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net> To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ussenterprise.ufp.org>, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should URL's be pervasive. Message-ID: <nospam-999226294.68880@maxim.gbch.net> In-Reply-To: <20010830223746.A40540@ussenterprise.ufp.org> of Thu, 30 Aug 2001 22:37:46 -0400 References: <20010830111018.A97057@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <nospam-999218204.57695@maxim.gbch.net> <20010830223746.A40540@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
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Leo Bicknell wrote: | On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:36:44AM +1000, Greg Black wrote: | > Why not do it the Unix way? Create a new application, e.g., | > url(1), to parse the URLs and use it like so: | | Sometimes the solution is so obvious. :-) Well, part of it. I'm | thinking it's worth creating liburl, with parse routines, and then | a front end for the command line, url(1). If I was doing it, I'd do the command line program first in awk or Python to get on top of the parsing in an easy way and to have a test tool working. Then, when I was happy, I'd take advantage of the easy translation to C that is possible from awk or Python and build the library. Finally, I'd re-write the command in C to link against liburl. | If only there were more hours in a day. Just slow down your clock :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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