[openbeos] Scripting

Hello,

For the communication between print_server and the preference app / 
BPrintJob API I have been using standard scripting. This is really nice to 
do (if raw speed isn't an issue), as you can also "see" the protocol 
documentation by (in my case) typing "hey print_server GETSUITES", this 
dumps all supported scripting vocabulary in the Terminal as output. This 
helps keeping docs up-to-date, and is easy for people needing specific 
functionality in shell scripts (i.e. selecting a specific printer as 
default, for example).

On another note, wouldn't it be a good idea to keep tools like hey & 
stubgen in our CVS tree? I'm pretty sure some mods will be made to them for 
OpenBeOS specific functionality.

Regards,


Ithamar R. Adema
Information Engineering Associates Ltd
http://www.ieadev.com

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