[Borgbackup] How to implement borg in a GUI?

[Marian Beermann]

The Python API is unstable and basically breaks compatibility every five
minutes, so that's probably not a good way to do it.

Take a look at
https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/internals/frontends.html

On 11.03.2018 11:42, Andreas Zweili wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> To get my diploma I have to do a bigger project. I've decided that I
> would like to start developing a GUI for borg. It should provide normal
> users with an interface to use borg. It's not really difficult to use
> borg. However I still think that they would benefit quite a lot from
> having a GUI to guide them. The main language I'm going to code in will
> be Python.
> 
> One question which I couldn't figure out so far is how I should
> implement the borg functions.
> 
> Should I clone the repository and try to implement borg as a sub module
> in the GUI? Means work directly with the source.
> 
> Or
> 
> Should I install the binary and just implement the binary in my GUI to
> provide the functionality I would like to support in the GUI?
> 
> Best Regards and thanks a ton for borg :).
> 
> Andreas Zweili
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