On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 12:48, Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi Sandro, > > * Sandro Tosi <mo...@debian.org>, 2011-11-04, 00:41: >> >> currently madison.cgi (and it's rmadison command friend) doesn't emit an >> easy-to-parse output: please enable it. yaml, whatever that's easy from a >> programming language to parse and understand. > > Why parsing the current output is hard?
It's not hard, but it's not even that much easily machine parsable as some other formats. Also, every clients needing to parse information, needs to implement its own parser, instead of getting data alraedy structurated. It's not i'm stuck if this is not fixed, the parser it's at [1], still I won't call it that optimal. [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=reportbug/reportbug.git;a=commitdiff;h=211802564a16717f29b7de8208841662b127cbd5 Cheers, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
