Re: crawler update

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@newton.collab.net> writes:
> (Side note: when I run `svn commit`, I get an XML file produced by
> Greg H's xml-output-editor. However, it's pretty hard for me to
> eyeball the results. I always end up passing this XML file to the
> deltaparse-test program for readable output. Perhaps we *should* put
> indentation into Greg's editor. :) )

Speaking of this --

Greg H, et al, I've been really wishing for some sort of
quoted-printable representation in the text deltas, instead of base64.
Human readability (and editability, in a pinch) would be *so* helpful.

I know that it's not just text in there, but rather encoded `svndiff'
format, which includes instructions as well as data. But a lot of
that *is* just the raw data, and it would be great to see it with the
naked eye.

How hard would it be to make the quoting style an attribute on the
text-delta, write a quoted-printable encoder/decoder, and make that an
option for developers at least?

   <text-delta encoding="base64">base64-encoded-svndiff</text-delta>
   <text-delta encoding="quote-print">somewhat-readable-svndiff</text-delta>

?,
-K
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:15 2006