Re: Constellations

On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 00:40:47 +0000, Tom Anderson <twic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

I don't see how writing XML is more user-friendly than writing find
commands

I don't think find commands have much hope of being used by
non-programmers. They have been around a long time, and you still
don't see them used that way. XML is not much better. What is
plausible is a specialised GUI editor for describing constellations
that edits XML. These XML constellation files could then be
imported/expanded/modified by programs or programmers.

What I am hoping to do is provide stable rules for selecting files
that handle files appearing and disappearing, that can then feed the
entire set to various utilities, without each utility needing to be
clever. I want a standard way of specifying constellations that works
across many utilities, including ones I did not write.

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