On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Eric Raymond <esr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I could understand providing JSON format, specified using --json >> option. > > You know, that's actually an interesting idea. I mentioned it > previously as the not-XML if we want to build on a metaprotocol; One issue is that there's no stream-parser JSON implementations that I'm aware of. Everthing I've seen is in-memory, therefore apt only for memory-bound operations. Not sure if all commands with -z output options can be assumed to produce bound-sized datasets. cheers, martin -- martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx martin@xxxxxxxxxx -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html