From: Javier Fontan <jfontan@...>
Date: 2002-02-19T18:19:09+09:00
Subject: Re: expect.rb vs Expect (Tcl)...


I've already made an extension of libexpect for ruby, I'm waiting for my 
employee to make it public (GPL). As soon as it's public it will be announced 
here.

Bye

On Mon 18 Feb 2002 20:20, you wrote:
> I have had a look at the expect.rb in the 1.6 library.
> It seems that this can only expect on one pattern at once.
> Am I wrong?  The expect examples in the CVSweb on ruby-lang.org
> seem to confirm this.  (BTW, I can't fine expect.rb in the CVS
> itself.  Is that intentional?)
>
> Questions provoked by this:
>
> Are there plans to improve this funtionality to allow one to expect on
> many patterns, performing actions as appropriate?
>
> Is anyone familiar enough with the internals of Don Libe's Expect such
> that they could tell me whether it is *very* tied to Tcl?
>
> Given the last question, and that SWIG is improving all the time, is
> is practical to attempt to wrap the C API of Expect to yield an
> interface that Ruby could use?  By practical, I mean not muvh over a
> day's work to do this.  I can't put in much more time for this just now.
>
>         Hugh

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Javier Fontan Mui�os
jfontan@cesga.es
CESGA, Supercomputing Center of Galicia