[AgileWiki] language

[Bill la F. <bil...@su...>]

It is good to see this mailing list working again. Sourceforge is no 
longer reporting a problem at http://sourceforge.net/docs/A04/

Last time I talked with Norm, he was expressing a strong desire for a 
command language, and I just brushed it off saying we use XML. But I'll 
note that the XML requests to the server are not what you want to enter 
manually. We also have a batch facility left over from the start of AW3, 
but its been a long time now since I looked at it.

Lately I've been thinking about how application code all but disapears. 
Well, with a better command language there is much less of a need for an 
API except for those things that can't be expressed in that language. It 
would be easy to, for example, take SimpleAccounting's deploy command 
and convert it into a command to create a descriptor unit, mm? Then the 
install just needs to add the batch script.

This is definately an aspect to be worked on. We could reorganize the 
XML being passed to the server a bit to make the command portion 
distinct, and perhaps make the batch input compatible with that--current 
syntax for batch is just not rich enough.

Bill