From: Eric Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:57:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/3] add a library of code for producing structured output
Message-ID: <20100411205704.GA16098@thyrsus.com>
In-Reply-To: <aae50060001ba0a214ed71ceff3fa480@212.159.54.234>

Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>:
> That should be much easier.  Though actually I am fairly close to getting
> _all_ output from ls-tree going through the output library ... (i.e. even
> the normal no-option output).  I don't know what people's opinion on this
> approach is, but I thought it was worth a try anyway.

I make encouraging noises in your direction.  This approach sounds
like an orthogonality and consistency win.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>