Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 09:18:54 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Erik Cederstrand <erik+lists@cederstrand.dk> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org> Subject: Re: [GSoC] Machine readable output from userland utilities Message-ID: <537CD1EE.2000708@mu.org> In-Reply-To: <8DDBACB5-749B-4660-B1DE-F2EE51033D96@cederstrand.dk> References: <49E9736E-AD14-4647-8B15-30603D01360C@mail.bg> <91FE2526-F21C-42AB-BECB-058DBA975A9E@cederstrand.dk> <537C2993.1060206@mu.org> <E9594D41-64FE-4957-98FD-4E52BCCB2598@cederstrand.dk> <CA%2BE3k91obr3AVGEme5sVU2NQy0scmeT6beN6E9WUz5a6gUnMbQ@mail.gmail.com> <537C63DF.1090402@mu.org> <8DDBACB5-749B-4660-B1DE-F2EE51033D96@cederstrand.dk>
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On 5/21/14 2:49 AM, Erik Cederstrand wrote: > Den 21/05/2014 kl. 10.29 skrev Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>: >> This is a great idea. Having compat formats is very important. >> >> That said there are a few things here we can do to keep the scope of this project down to something doable by a student as well as very useful for FreeBSD. >> >> First off we can decide that without any additional specification that v1.0 is the default version, it then becomes up to the app to ask for v2.0, v2.1, etc at a later date. > To keep the scope even further down, why not just adopt the same policy regarding API stability and deprecation as the rest of the FreeBSD project? > That sounds reasonable. Is there a link to the specifics we can have? -Alfred
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