From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Raymond Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH v2 0/4] A new library for plumbing output Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:46:26 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20100412004625.GA19373@thyrsus.com> References: <20100411231824.67460.24844.julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Julian Phillips , git@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Narebsk , Junio C Hamano To: Sverre Rabbelier X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 12 02:46:44 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O17nX-00027u-B0 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:46:43 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753279Ab0DLAq1 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:46:27 -0400 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:42527 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753212Ab0DLAq0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:46:26 -0400 Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 23) id 09BC720CD3D; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:46:26 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Sverre Rabbelier : > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 01:21, Julian Phillips wrote: > > Probably the biggest change from v1 is an expanded aim. =A0Now the > > output library is aimed at controlling _all_ plubming > > output. =A0This series includes a patch for ls-tree that has all > > it's output going through the library, and a patch for status that > > has all the --porcelain output going through the library. >=20 > I like where this is going, a lot, especially since we don't have to > convert everything in one go, but we can do it as desired, similar to > optparsification. Speaking as a major customer for the new capabilities it will enable, I strongly concur. --=20 Eric S. Raymond