On 6/14/15 3:17 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Jun 14, 2015, at 3:00, Slawa Olhovchenkov <s...@zxy.spb.ru> > wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 05:13:31PM -0700, Craig Rodrigues wrote: >> >>> The people I talk to use scripting languages like Python or >>> Ruby, and devops frameworks like Ansible, Saltstack, Puppet, >>> and Chef. They may do some quick prototyping and UI work with >>> Javascript and HTML/CSS. Being able to generate JSON directly >>> from system-level tools, and then analyze that in a Python >>> script, >> >> You need JSON from system-level tools for analyze that in a >> Python script? Realy? Not plain text? or tab/space separated? > > Having written a bunch of tools that parse plaintext, it’s a pain > in the rear. It’s far easier to have JSON and a schema for working > with that JSON when developing tools to parse things out. > > Programmers are inherently lazy — the more we have to make them > work, the more pushback we’re going to get from them as far as > integrating FreeBSD’s concerned. > > Thanks! >
For 'w' it makes sense, for 'ls' why? Most, all?, scripting languages have globbing and file listing functions already so there's no need to run /bin/ls and parse it. -- Regards, Bryan Drewery _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
