Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > Well, I think good UI means that you distuingish computer parsable and > human readable tools. "status" is human readable. "show"/"check" are > computer-parsable. Mildly disagree. It is nice to be able to remember from people-use what the output looks like when computer-parsing it. It is nasty if you have to remember that foo(1)'s output is for human consumption, while scripts should use bar(8). People will just go ahead and use foo(1), while bitching all the time about its nasty format. Here find(1) shows a nice compromise: You can make it spit out stuff in computer-friendlier format, but the result is not _too_ far removed from its regular output. > Human-readable stuff we want to indent and ellipsize to make it easily > readable. If it is text meant to be read rarely. But when you get used to some tool (we aren't talking Aunt Tillie here!) the fact that (due to indentation, text flowing and such) the one word you are looking for now has to be searched for in random text doesn't help a bit. I.e., it is fine for ps(1)'s manpage to be formatted for prettyness, it definitely isn't for ps(1)'s output. > Computer-parsable stuff should be neither. It must be easily readable anyway! Best part is that if done right, you don't get to maintain several programs ;-) -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 2340000 Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
