[p4] p4 -G and perl - chris patti - com.perforce.perforce-user

4 messages in com.perforce.perforce-user[p4] p4 -G and perl

From	Sent On	Attachments
CHARLES HART, BLOOMBERG/ 499 PARK	03 Dec 2002 14:52
Jeremy S. Russell	03 Dec 2002 15:17
chris patti	03 Dec 2002 15:48
Robert Cowham	04 Dec 2002 04:41

Subject:	[p4] p4 -G and perl
From:	chris patti (cpa...@atg.com)
Date:	12/03/2002 03:48:13 PM
List:	com.perforce.perforce-user

On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Jeremy S. Russell wrote:

If you are doing Perl, you may want to take a look at the Perforce Perl API:

http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadsupp.html#api

I have been using it for about a year and think it is great! It has sure eased Perforce script development for me.

-----*----------------*----- -Jeremy

One advantage -G has over this is that it doesn't require a custom built, dynamically linked to Perforce's .so's version of Perl (Which can be awkward in production and problematic under win32).

I wish there were a way to make -G be language independent / insensitive. XML seems like a natural solution to me (Why couldn't the Perforce server(client?) optionally encode responses using lightweight XML? I may be daydreaming here).

There are other options - even regularizing the output of the -s option (the things the Perforce server categorizes as 'info' versus 'error' boggle the mind :) would be a godsend for cross platform scripters.

I keep thinking that Java could utilize Jython's marshal implementation to parse -G 'natively' but have never had the time to properly follow it up.

-Chris

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