[Mdate-devel] Re: mdate 1.4.3 released

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Hi,

> To quote the various release blurbs: we finally got a working mingw32 
> console port! It's the first win32 port in at least 3 years :) Also 
> fixed many things, rewrote config.h, added a basic default system for 
> languages via Makefile settings. No translations addec :(, and the 
> existing ones work fine :)
> 
> Now I really must fix the configuration - the Makefile is beginning to 
> look like spagetti-code. Then I can get on with some sort of GUI - Qt 
> would be nice if the Debian maintainers got their act together...
> 
> woohoo!

congrats! :)

would it be hard to make it support "piping"? i mean to make it work with 
command like:

mdate -L pl > /boot/home/Desktop/mdate-out.txt

? because for now it doesn't work (at least here on BeOS - i tried to make 
info box showing output, so user could click in gui on script and script 
would show info box).

with ability to pipe output we could add python (or rebol maybe?) based 
gui very quickly, and multiplatform (i saw truly multiplatform "gui" for 
pythong somewhere - it uses specific guis like wxPython, and Bethon and 
gives developer one API working on every platform; rebol view works on 
every platform supported by rebol out-of-the-box AFAIK :). that would be 
just for the start, later it would be best to create native application 
using code from mdate (maybe take that code out to some library?), so for 
example BeOS people could have mdate in deskbar, and windows in tray.

Regards
Shard