From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2003-12-11T13:54:45+09:00
Subject: Re: expect, rexpect and others

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Ben Giddings wrote:

> Ben Giddings wrote:
> > http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RExpect
> >
> > It attempts to fix some of the perceived flaws with expect, including
> > getting things one character at a time.
>
> Since I had no answers, let me ask a few more questions.  Having looked at
> the RExpect stuff, it looks much better than the standard 'expect' library,
> mainly because it isn't character based.  So, has anybody used it?  Does
> anybody know if it exists in any form other than a web page?

Slightly unfair of me to comment since I wrote it....

But yes, I have used it to drive very many (100's) of real and virtual
devices simultaneously. So yes, it is robust and does scale, which I
found the standard one didn't.

That's not quite the absolute latest version I have but should be good
to try. (The API hasn't changed except I now through a TimeoutError
instead of EOFError on timeout.)

RubyForge didn't exist when I submitted it, I guess I should create a
RubyForge project for it. Except it is so small it is more appropriate
to included it as part of some other project.

Is there a "Standards Track" library project for Ruby
like the http://www.boost.org library for C++?


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