From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 19 03:37:59 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 79196CA6; Sun, 19 Oct 2014 03:37:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [IPv6:2001:470:1f05:b76::196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53EC5F2C; Sun, 19 Oct 2014 03:37:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from AlfredMacbookAir.local (162-222-103-181.webpass.net [162.222.103.181]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6FFA7341F830; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 20:37:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <54433211.6000303@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 20:37:53 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein Organization: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Simon J. Gerraty" Subject: Re: XML Output: libxo - provide single API to output TXT, XML, JSON and HTML References: <201408141640.s7EGe422096656@idle.juniper.net> <53ED57F2.5020808@mu.org> <20140815053604.9E40B580A2@chaos.jnpr.net> <53EDB0EF.6090902@mu.org> <20140815173830.93832580A2@chaos.jnpr.net> <53EEA74B.9070107@mu.org> <20140816045254.5F47E580A2@chaos.jnpr.net> In-Reply-To: <20140816045254.5F47E580A2@chaos.jnpr.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , Phil Shafer , John-Mark Gurney , arch@freebsd.org, Poul-Henning Kamp , freebsd-arch , Konstantin Belousov X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 03:37:59 -0000 Guys, It's now been 2 months since the last discussion about this. Where is the code from Juniper? Is there a project branch? I am thinking of just rolling forward the GSoC project and committing it. Let me know if that sounds alright. -Alfred On 8/15/14, 9:52 PM, Simon J. Gerraty wrote: > On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 17:35:23 -0700, Alfred Perlstein writes: >>>> How many programs have been successfully converted over to libxo at this >>>> point? >>> How is that relevant to any of this discussion? >>> >> Well, it speaks towards the vision of getting this done in a timely >> manner. As I said there is a GSOC project that has a ton of code >> already done. > Yes but as previously pointed out, the approach taken is far from ideal, > [we previously rejected the idea of trying to contribute that approach] > I think libxo will provide a much better result. > >> If this libxo is ready to go in, it should go in and we > No objection here. > There are a small number of apps that we particularly want converted, > which we would propose as examples. > > The purpose of this thread was to illicit feedback on the idea and guage > acceptance of the proposed API - which you have to admit isn't as cosy > and comforting as printf, but is pretty palatable considering the > functionality provided. > > On that front I think we are looking good. > There has been very useful discussion on a number of points. > I don't think I have spotted any fundamental objection to the idea. > > It is probably easier for Phil to commit to our internal mirror. > We can take the next steps from there. > >> should get towards converting more utils to using it. However if we are >> going to perpetually add frameworky things, but not convert over >> userland tools to the actual framework, then that is a potential problem >> worth calling out. > Indeed. Again that's why I prefer to see this (the library at least) > done by someone who's been doing this sort of thing successfuly for > ages. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >