[Borgbackup] How to implement borg in a GUI?

[Sascha Ternes]

Hi Andreas,

Am 11.03.2018 um 11:42 schrieb Andreas Zweili:
> 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.

I hope you did not choose Python because of BorgBackup.

> 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?

You could do the research yourself as part of your project. One should
take a closer look on this. My first shoot is "be independent" and call
the Borg binary.

Best regards

Sascha