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-----Original Message----- From: Krzysztof Kosiński [mailto:tweenk.pl@...400...] Sent: zaterdag 6 december 2008 21:57 To: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Parsing a command line to argc/argv
I'm getting back to work on the GIO transition.
The first thing that must change in order to move to GIO is the parameter parsing (to open files it's best to use Gio::File::create_for_commandline_arg, and for this filenames in filename encoding are needed). However, this will interfere with the shell mode. I don't think this is an useful feature - an embedded scripting language would be a lot better - but probably there's someone who relies on it, so it should be preserved until there's a replacement.
What do you mean by shell mode? Calling Inkscape from the commandline? Judging from the maillists this is used quite a lot.
Johan