Cooperation with Plumbum project?

[Piotr Dobrogost]

It seems like sarge and plumbum (http://tomerfiliba.com/blog/Plumbum/) have the same goal. Maybe joining efforts and creating one library would be beneficial to users?

[Vinay Sajip]

There's also pbs, which in my view has more in common with Plumbum than either have with sarge, which deliberately chooses a path other than calling commands as if they were functions. It has no "magic" or DSLs, it supports a reasonable subset of bash syntax via a parser. I believe it would make more sense for pbs and Plumbum to work closely, as their API styles are similar to each other.

[Piotr Dobrogost]

After parsing input sarge could output a tree of Plumbum command objects internally thus reusing their implementation. Both projects need something like sarge's Capture object. Just a thought.