Re: [PATCH][XM] Extend width of ID to 5.

[Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>]

"Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@amd.com> writes:

>> The only thing it can mess is automated tests and routines that uses
>> the fixed width and will need a fix after this patch gets in.
>
> Yes, of course, but such scrips would also be broken when the numbers
> get too big to fit in the fields, so those scripts are already possibly
> broken. Any script that parses the output of a program (and wishes to
> remain functional after revisions of the software) should use flexible
> field parsing rather than column-grabbing, in my opinion. 

Sure, I agree completely with you while I also know that this kind of
"not-so-well-written-script" exist ;-)

> But it's also why I suggested that it may go into unstable only, rather
> than into the near-release 3.0.5 tree. 

Well, I just think that a note on release notes would solve that.

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