Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File list format consistency

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Samium Gromoff <address@hidden>
    > Miles Bader wrote:
    > > Samium Gromoff <address@hidden> writes:

    > > >       - tla {tree-lint,show-changeset} on the other
    > > >               crudely machine-parsable

    > > At least with tree-lint what you can do is supply options to specify
    > > what condition you're looking for, which causes the output to be just a
    > > simple list of files matching that condition -- it's just the default
    > > output which is a bit wonky.

    > That`s nice and removes ambiguity in one case, i see, but,
    > still there is the inconsistency issue, for which i don`t see
    > any reason...


The rationale is that tree-lint and show-changeset are, for the most
part, "report generation" commands -- explicitly designed to prefer
more human-readable over more program-readable output where there is
that choice to be made.

Both commands internally work roughly this way: they do their work
building up a structure of the data they need to report; then they
report that data.   That should make it very easy to modify them with
new options for more "pipe-worthy" output formats -- an improvement
I'd happily accept.

-t