Branko Čibej wrote:
> Julian Foad wrote:
>> If we start down this road, do we continue with the other
>> information-retrieval commands, and eventually also with the progress
>> output of action commands like "commit"? No, I don't think so.
>
> Yes I do think so. Why? Because parsing this commit and update output is
> important for clients that wrap the command-line client; psvn and vc-svn
> come to mind (although these would be happier with an --elisp option :-) .
Oh, that's OK then. When I wrote the above, I was concerned about us feeling
obliged to provide XML versions of everything just "for completeness". I have
no qualms about us providing XML output from all sorts of commands if it is
actually useful to people.
> The point is that if the format of the output produced by those commands
> changes, it's much easier for an existing parser to ignore unknown XML
> elements than to accomodate undeterministically changing column widths.
Indeed.
- Julian
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Received on Wed Jan 19 19:12:09 2005