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