On 6/13/15 11:38 PM, David Chisnall wrote:
On 13 Jun 2015, at 11:17, Ian Lepore <i...@freebsd.org> wrote:
If you would have told me a year ago that you had a simple scheme that
could make 30 years of experience maintaining code for unix-like systems
completely worthless I would have been skeptical, but it seems we're
well on our way.
There is a lot of heckling and unhelpful hyperbole in this thread. Reading the
xo_emit format strings takes a little bit of getting used to, but the same is
true of printf - it’s just that we’re already used to printf. The structured
parts (xo_open_container, xo_close_container and friends) are clear and
descriptive. The changes are fairly invasive, but the benefits are also very
large for anyone who is wanting to automate administration of FreeBSD systems.
If you have suggestions for how the libxo APIs could be improved, then please
let us know - Phil is very reception to suggestions but objections along the
lines of ‘it’s not what I’m used to and changes sometimes break things so we
should never have changes’ are not helpful.
David
I made a suggestion for an alternate path in the previous thread.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2015-March/054855.html
but I have a job and kids so I can't object if I'm not listened to..
(no time to actually follow my own advice and produce working code.)
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