bundler -- simple ui feature

[Fred T. Hamster]

can't a subshell tell bundler some new variable settings?

this would allow things like the target folder to be overridden.

what's the best way for them to communicate? maybe make them
specify and output file?

how do we do this cleanly?

put in manifest?
look for file in fixed location?
take from output of the subshell?

last seems appealing, just scan the output of the subshell?
we'd have to change how we run things...
but then we could have a pretty simple statement of the
code as:

<bundler_new_variable> name="XYZ" value="" </bundler_new_variable>

we scan the output for statements like that.
this allows us to be told what to do by subshells,
and it offers a standard interface;
the subshell need not be given a file name or whatever to write to.
it can write to standard out and we will eat it.

io redirecter already exists portably.
just switch to launching the subshells with that.

what about shells that have a lot of output?
i guess we don't care; we just throw it all away as needed anyhow.

[Fred T. Hamster]

bundler -- need window front end on bundler
another note on this theme...

maybe just ship a dotnet app to gather the window info?

or even a win32 app.

structure it to pass the variables in and out, and just always include
that in the bundle?

needs to be there at install time!
so, it should preinstall this little app someplace where it can run it.