From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 1 05:56:51 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBF8D1065D90; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 05:56:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jos@catnook.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 766B68FC0C; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 05:56:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iaeo4 with SMTP id o4so1602639iae.13 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:56:51 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.43.47.202 with SMTP id ut10mr10676166icb.22.1328075811102; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:56:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.42.218.7 with HTTP; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:56:50 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4620.46.129.107.107.1328048835.squirrel@mymail.acsalaska.net> References: <20120130123930.GB40244@azathoth.lan> <20120130171044.GD40244@azathoth.lan> <20120130173257.GE40244@azathoth.lan> <4620.46.129.107.107.1328048835.squirrel@mymail.acsalaska.net> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:56:50 -0800 Message-ID: From: Jos Backus To: rflynn@acsalaska.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Baptiste Daroussin Subject: Re: [HEADSUP][CFT] pkgng beta1 is out X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:56:52 -0000 On Jan 31, 2012 2:27 PM, wrote: > Why not stick this in query? Humans ask for information, computers query > for parseable stuff. The separation is there already, keep it consistent. > In fact, it makes a lot of sense to have a '-f format' option for query > and pluggable formatters. Have -R map to -f yaml if you wish. That's fine with me, but YAML would also work here imo. Jos