Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Mike Frysinger Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: general loadable integration Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 05:11:12 -0400 Lines: 48 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20150713204638.GA8279@sagulo> <20150714010230.GA721@ma.sdf.org> <20150714054919.GA3374@sagulo> <55A4C4B1.4040501@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz" X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1436865082 5972 208.118.235.17 (14 Jul 2015 09:11:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: Charles Daffern , "bug-bash@gnu.org" To: Pierre Gaston Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org Mail-Followup-To: Pierre Gaston , Charles Daffern , "bug-bash@gnu.org" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 140.211.166.183 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: aioe.org gnu.bash.bug:11205 --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 14 Jul 2015 11:35, Pierre Gaston wrote: > I think adoption would be difficult considering even a useful loadable > builtin like "finfo" has not found its way into default installations, but > for instance I can imagine bash programmable completion could go another > level with an embedded interpreter that lets you access the readline > internals. finfo is under the "examples" directory, and all of the loadable logic isn'= t=20 exactly trivial to package. it feels kind of bolted on, especially when yo= u=20 try to build & install things. if we want the loadables to be more of a fi= rst class concept than something people only play around with locally on their = own systems, this needs polishing. -mike --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJVpNIvAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBR6YP/iNDnfUsOxQ9wJGF8pMg8tC5 5OAktTh4CFAoAgIwUBBueXIVcvAep8S/BMYzEMoe46/IoIcnm2lBdi1JKhk0HgxF Eowi6ofij7C5MuNlXg6022KI62Sy3rmD8y/m6MCsPIepYRX4chAL6MD9YKETa/ki IsbFfvhglISj5ML/wbz2WyDOVrVINwleuQhXt9p7RZLuL9KF0+eGi0mO5zJNMoc0 /QZ9RhLNAjoUVN9/z1dRZR5Ni3kGZt8WvSJHqkBTU0uh8EMajP0NSwafG2MhaMDq lA0dcRz2+D8Uai0+QVy3iaOSlm2jSxxfPVl1AlwyLOjwobWJ2ADbyXcpBTxU/9KF RZLyN1zby+k95riSEby9kMuigggA7xsgeiwzv8v0NXXo7usE2BDY+DPmn1l+YTvg Btr12Yc+1RvrDdHcy2ZwcICwJEzLlFeK3jYALBvMwKxnfrQLbQ5ZJPALW04p6Cuz i+eoVOso/ZPm41/p2iU7UoSUYhCfcZ7/KoKaocwQFhnBKCnWdlx/7KGFaoIoFyzf g9+Kj93niuDTPp7HCGJxpS2ZDhj+2QZ1brCJp+dqk9JFBH33IcHfGXGJFNUim6c0 So2HEVc5K1hEUAnF2HzUgbLE5nUHeqwo/Yp8F9KgBwD7iuQb9t+7nfskd9TL3UPM ok7t5mvFF0HYFNtndzDm =xrfW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz--