Motoc & Motoi

[David Hakim]

Hi Dave,
did you give a look at the motoc script?

I didn't see it in my email. Could you re-send ?

Could we introduce in in the next
release together with a motoi link to moto -i or a wrapper motoi
script?
Since I copied it in /usr/bin I have found it more and more useful!

I think motoc and motoi binaries may make for a very nice interim
release. I'd like to think through their design some first. The one we
have thought and discussed most in the past is motoi. The key to that
tool being the ability to support running scripts not only by passing
the script name as the first argument to motoi but also through
including

#!/usr/bin/moto

at the top of the moto script itself and letting moto pages be executed
from the cmd line directly. This would be the first step towards a lot
of new features most importantly allowing moto pages to be run as cgi
scripts.

A related question: what aboud command line arguments?! Any way to
pass them
to a moto script?

Not yet because the arguments to the current moto cmd line binary are
the moto scripts to execute / generate code for. With the advent of a
motoi script (and standalone compiled moto scripts) we should
definitely have an extension ready to access the cmd line args.

The extension function I'm thinking of would just be something like
getArgs[] or Runtime.getArgs() and would return a String[] of the cmd
line arguments. The function / method would need to be part of the moto
extension since the getArgs function will need access to an array of
arguments motoi (or the 'main' function in compiled moto scripts) sets
up.

-Dave

Stefano