id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
66	bundler -- simple ui feature	Fred T. Hamster	bugdock	"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.
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