Next Release?

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 05:50:12PM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 05:27:16PM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, dem 29.08.2023 um 17:23 +0200 schrieb Pavel Sanda:
> > > I am afraid this will break on the problems I tried to handle inside
> > > the script and will complicate the situation if you want to slip your
> > > own scripts in the pipeline.
> > 
> > Like which problems exactly?
> 
> - Not waiting for a viewer to finish & spawn multiples instances of viewer
>   when more result on one query is found
> - eat STDERR output to avoid mysterious crashes of spawned processes
> - allow specific arguments for specific viewers
> 
> > I find it much more straighforward, and maybe also more safe. Should
> > the external script really do more than query and return found file
> > paths?
> 
> Well obviously that's the question - who is responsible for launching
> the viewer ;)
> 
> Anyway I am not totally oppposed to your approach, but I'll need more time to
> check what got broken...

Quick check shows that the new approach breaks in multiple ways on my system.
I'm sure there are ways to gradually fix this but I have different proposal.

Would you mind that instead of just checking for empty results we allow
the script also to return e.g. "?internally_handled?" and show no response
in such case?

This way you can stay with elegant and safe world while I can stay in a
dangerous one without turning this thread into saga of corner cases? :)

Pavel