Re: [Dragora-members] Relation of Qi and Qire

[Matias Fonzo]

Hello Michael!

El 2020-06-04 09:32, Michael Siegel escribió:
> thinking about Dragora's package management again, I realized something
> about the relation of Qi and Qire that should probably be changed.
>
> At the moment, the idea is that a user would normally not have to touch
> Qi and would instead always use Qire because Qire is not only a remote
> extension for Qi, but it is also a complete Qi wrapper, if I understand
> it correctly.
>
> What this means is: There are two complete user interfaces to Qi, or
> rather: The Qi user interface is more or less being implemented twice.

I don't see it has a repeated implementention, instead I see it as 
external calls or invocations to Qi actions.

> I want to suggest a simpler approach: Let Qire just be what it claims 
> to
> be – the Qi remote _extension_, i.e., a piece of code that Qi will make
> use of when necessary.

Yeah, if it's not too much to remember or to curse for the user, why 
not.

> Then, only implement a user interface for Qi,
> including “remote commands”. But whenever those remote commands are
> being executed, Qi will simply hand anything it can't do by itself over
> to Qire, i.e., Qi itself would still not include the code implementing
> those remote commands.
>
> What do you think?

I'm not sure I understand. Do you want to avoid having a separate 
command for remote actions (qire) and instead use the code of qire to 
supplement Qi in "one" command, program?.