[Dar-libdar_api] archive methods?

[Johnathan B. <jk...@us...>]

Hi Denis,

Now that libdar uses the "archive" class, what is the possibility of having=
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the various libdar operations implemented as methods of the archive class?

Instead of

libdar::archive *theArchive;

libdar::open( theArchive, ...)
libdar::test( theArchive, ...)
etc.

what about having

libdar::archive *theArchive( path, basename, etc.)

theArchive->open();
theArchive->test();

Have you considered this? I'm not sure what this would accomplish, besides=
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quite a bit of possibly unnecessary code rewriting. It just ocurred to me=20
that an archive is the main object for libdar, and the usual way in c++ is=
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to implement functions as methods.

Please enlighten me if I am off base here. I'm not sure that I've thought=20
this through very much. Sorry in advance if this has been documented=20
elsewhere.

Cheers,
JB

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Johnathan K. Burchill, Ph.D.
jk...@us...