From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 23 15:38:38 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B6AE29D4 for ; Fri, 23 May 2014 15:38:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qg0-f45.google.com (mail-qg0-f45.google.com [209.85.192.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 75D992950 for ; Fri, 23 May 2014 15:38:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qg0-f45.google.com with SMTP id z60so8094194qgd.4 for ; Fri, 23 May 2014 08:38:31 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=NuFMDS8lC2VH64W0sEQFvMHRzKXx1m8Alo5n7r2IjC0=; b=kWV9dBbuMU6EQcLZLrTVk3j8Rzbwwi7lgQ/yopf4qWxgzIhE6vUO7101z0a2r/WzOA N6u6IEkEZDhKeiPSidmvSdkN6DGCXyCzASw0kY7QlaNf1muZ3TkIFjtkcL8sK3dAASbH ob4nG27OH6IcR7OAdIYS1ETFEsR5CR4lKtDeCFtbVPXXsDgeo4y7XPCxaCarjdznQCDX FZ8Yftqjl3jdCDnwtKT/rYFhcxWUbWC4JcISbRbK9bFwJCfYPewjpEiGobYT2bl3eXfj 4evoKJsyru/F1yXsHR11zAT9NyF6x3OVxXrAWmIS/JPBXzLtlQp7nx0UULiFoogp+H/A G63A== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnh5RQnZ4oZFq33xZ/aFsnP6fKOgLhLD/ZKy5ETs04hlpWNKClY1Adg7aPvRyJRJTTO6bbN MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.13.72 with SMTP id b8mr7905939qaa.4.1400859511154; Fri, 23 May 2014 08:38:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.223.129 with HTTP; Fri, 23 May 2014 08:38:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.223.129 with HTTP; Fri, 23 May 2014 08:38:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <537F11A9.8020504@mu.org> References: <49E9736E-AD14-4647-8B15-30603D01360C@mail.bg> <537F0DD9.6090805@highsecure.ru> <537F11A9.8020504@mu.org> Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 08:38:31 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GSoC] Machine readable output from userland utilities From: Jos Backus To: Alfred Perlstein Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18 Cc: FreeBSD Hackers X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 15:38:38 -0000 On May 23, 2014 2:15 AM, "Alfred Perlstein" wrote >point to note is that the intent is to have an output that is very consumable by modern scripting languages and modules. That would very likely be JSON output. > > -Alfred I'd actually prefer YAML output. YAML is a much more expressive superset of JSON (YAML parsers can read JSON), but given that VHS beat out BetaMax, I fully expect JSON to win, and YAML to fade into oblivion. Sad. Jos