On 14 January 2011 15:57, Nathan Owens <ndowens.aur@gmail.com> wrote:
I wrote a little AUR helper in C++, though currently it only downloads the tarball if the package name is valid. I am new to C++ and wanted to know if you thought the code was good. I was thinking about putting it in AUR, but figured I would asked for opinion first. Here is the url for the code: http://pastebin.com/aSW1awD4
So far so good, just a few pointers: - The struct Aur isn't necessary - the file field is never used. You should remove Aur:: from the getFile definition to make it an ordinary function. - The return type of getFile should be void, not char. I would suggest passing the -Wall and -pedantic options to g++ so the compiler would catch these types of issues. - The only headers I think you need are <iostream>, <stdlib.h> and <string> (not <string.h>, which is a C header). I might have missed something though. - As a next step I would use a library to download the file, rather than calling wget which isn't very efficient. You might choose libcurl, libfetch, libsoup, Qt, or maybe something else. - Although it isn't needed yet, I would suggest adding a break statement after case 1, to avoid errors when you add more cases. Hope this helps, Jonathan