[Pipet Devel] man to man^H^H^Hnode parameters

[Jean-Marc Valin]

"J.W. Bizzaro" a écrit :
> 
> I just wanted to re-introduce Brad's very cool idea of parsing Unix man pages
> for the purpose of automatically determining the parameters to be used with
> command-line programs imported to run under Piper (as nodes).
> 
> We should develop a parser that can grab both the OPTIONS and their
> descriptions and XML-ize them.  Descriptions can then be used by the UI as
> tooltips or the equivalent.

Just a thought: why not validata these by searching the getopt calls in the
actual source code (it all OSS isn't it?). 

	Jean-Marc

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Jean-Marc Valin
Universite de Sherbrooke - Genie Electrique
valj01 at gel.usherb.ca