Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 14:27:39 -0400 From: "Garance A Drosehn" <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Alfred Perlstein" <bright@mu.org> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@freebsd.org>, Phil Shafer <phil@juniper.net>, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>, "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net>, "arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Subject: Re: XML Output: libxo - provide single API to output TXT, XML, JSON and HTML Message-ID: <2B9447E2-AF2F-4B8F-8D6F-2A9F2AF9AB10@rpi.edu> In-Reply-To: <D0921A8C-2D3B-4C9F-BB55-6C028F449DE5@mu.org> References: <201408131936.s7DJaA1r089174@idle.juniper.net> <20140814052648.GM2737@kib.kiev.ua> <16CE0543-0616-415D-9E68-EEB053DE4254@xcllnt.net> <20140815082501.GR2737@kib.kiev.ua> <D0921A8C-2D3B-4C9F-BB55-6C028F449DE5@mu.org>
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[apologies to Alfred, who will be seeing this twice...] On 15 Aug 2014, at 10:44, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > Agree with kib. > > Kib, one thing that I just don't understand is the point of even being > able to query programs for libxo support. Does it make sense to you? If I'm writing cross-platform scripts, then I'll want some way for the script to know which commands have machine-readable output, and which ones do not. And unless we're going to implement machine-readable output in all base-system commands at once, then we're also going to have the issue that a command which does not do command-readable output today will suddenly start doing it tomorrow. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosih@rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA
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