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k9withabone
Alternatives
In https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/8040 I asked some project maintainers to switch to your solution, but it appears to be kissing one important requirement: isolation e.g. in containers or VMs.
That said, that's okay for this project IMHO. Maybe it can be listed in the Readme though?
Alternatives mentioned:
At a quick glance autocast appears to be a tool with a similar purpose to TCL expect (which I used). Both allow automated control of software that requires a terminal emulator (TTY). Autocast appears to be more special-purpose. There is a chance a more special-purpose tool can be an improvement over a more general-purpose tool.
https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/8040#issuecomment-2031233985
Maybe add some doc?
- "kissing" -> missing? typo?
- As far as I understand autocast can probably run in containers and VMs too. My argument was that autocast can't replace Vagrant for our use-case - just like expect it would need to be used inside a container and/or VM
Alternatives are sort of already in the "Inspiration" section of the README. expectrl is listed there and if you look at the bottom of its README, they list rexpect and pexpect as inspiration.
I think this can be closed unless there are other suggestions for alternatives. You might also want to check out asciinema's integrations page.