<div dir="ltr">That will teach me for using Gmail. It decided to send from my other account for some reason (which isn't subscribed)... Trying this again.<br><div><br>On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 9:26 PM, unsolicited <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca" target="_blank">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<br>>I can get why the desire to move away from text files - but I don't get
not building a command line interface as part and parcel of developing
any given API.<br><br>I don't doubt there will be CLI
interfaces; where there is a well-documented API, there will be CLI
programs that can interact with them. They may even be scriptable. The
difference, of course, is that your scripts will consist of successive
calls to these programs, using whatever esoteric arguments and
idiosyncrasies they require, rather than interactions with text files in
standard locations, using standard shell commands. Of course "standard
locations" and "standard commands" have become scarce across the rapidly
diverging distributions anyway.<br>
<br>It's a good thing the BSDs exist, just in case. -Jason Locklin</div></div>