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From: Eric Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Cc: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>,
	Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/3] JSON/XML output for scripting interface
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:34:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100411223455.GA16622@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <q2i2cfc40321004111522kd177fb89k6b9265c641d7deec@mail.gmail.com>

Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>:
> [ And, yes, I understand that to making line-oriented formats a
> backend would be a reasonably invasive change to existing code that
> would involve a level of indirection and abstraction that may not be
> to everyone's taste. ]

For whatever my opinion is worth I think this is a good direction to
go in.  I think it fits the well-established git design philosophy of
separating content manipulation (plumbing) from presentation
(porcelain).
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-11 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-11 11:37 [RFC/PATCH 0/3] JSON/XML output for scripting interface Julian Phillips
2010-04-11 11:37 ` [RFC/PATCH 1/3] strbuf: Add strbuf_vaddf function Julian Phillips
2010-04-11 12:42   ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-04-11 12:59     ` Julian Phillips
2010-04-11 11:37 ` [RFC/PATCH 2/3] add a library of code for producing structured output Julian Phillips
2010-04-11 12:51   ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-04-11 13:03     ` Julian Phillips
2010-04-11 15:46   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-04-11 18:16   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-11 18:26     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-04-11 19:21     ` Julian Phillips
2010-04-11 20:34       ` Jakub Narebski
2010-04-11 20:46         ` Julian Phillips
2010-04-11 20:57           ` Eric Raymond
2010-04-11 11:37 ` [RFC/PATCH 3/3] status: add support for " Julian Phillips
2010-04-11 15:48 ` [RFC/PATCH 0/3] JSON/XML output for scripting interface Sverre Rabbelier
2010-04-11 17:30   ` Julian Phillips
2010-04-11 17:34     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-04-11 17:45       ` Julian Phillips
2010-04-11 17:50         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-04-11 22:22           ` Jon Seymour
2010-04-11 22:34             ` Eric Raymond [this message]
2010-04-11 23:25             ` Jon Seymour
2010-04-11 23:30               ` Julian Phillips

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