Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org>
* Package name : libpipeline Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> * URL : http://libpipeline.nongnu.org/ * License : GPLv3+ Programming Lang: C Description : pipeline manipulation library This is a C library for setting up and running pipelines of processes, without needing to involve shell command-line parsing which is often error-prone and insecure. The code in this library is currently in the man-db package, but I'm splitting it out to a standalone library because I'd like to be able to use it in other packages: for example, I'm currently translating binfmt-support from Perl to C and want to use it there. Plus, I haven't been able to find anything comparable to this, except for process-spawning functions in things like GLib and Qt which are OK for single subprocesses but aren't really up to the task of handling pipelines; and I'm fed up of seeing people writing insecure code with system/popen, and would like to be able to offer them a simple and lightweight alternative. I blogged about this recently on http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/blosxom/2010-10-03-pipeline-library.html, and had a generally positive response. libpipeline has not yet had its first upstream release, but I expect to do this very soon. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101022123119.ga12...@riva.ucam.org
