Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Announce: axp - a new command line tool

[Aaron Bentley]

Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> This means read-only operations. ArchZoom is an example of a read-only
> reporting tool. Some planned features will be available in both archzoom
> and axp. It is quite easy when you have a library, you know.

Indeed.  And I had the advantage of being able to start with an 
already-implemented one.

> > When [Fai] 
> > encounters an unregistered archive name, it automatically looks it up. 

> Yes, this is handy, but personally I like to register archives
> explicitly, this avoids unexpected problems.

The default is to prompt you, and you can also configure Fai to always 
do it, or to never do it.

> The registry functionality is available using Arch::Registry module that
> is part of arch-perl. It has a nice API for any kinds of archive/version
> regexp searches, and it has a support for internal web cache. The actual
> "axp registry" subcommands are just several lines.

The way it should be.  I guess I should add a registry cache too.

Aaron
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