Garrett Cooper <yaneurab...@gmail.com> wrote: > We lack a [dtd/json] spec for tools, so programming for xo'ification > doesn't seems like the best idea in the world to me from a end-user > sysadmin/developer perspective.
A dtd etc is good for sure, and we (Juniper) do have them, as well as ui-police to help ensure things go smoothly - even that doesn't catch everything. But all that is a layer above something like libxo - which is just the mechanism. All that is fundamentally required to obtain a reasonable result is consistent use of verbs and nouns. > I could just as easily use standard tools like awk, grep, sed, and > more advanced languages like perl or Python to parse output, and If you are parsing plain text output - that is all the data you have and it is a small subset of what the app knows. XML and HTML allow the app to provide lots of ancilliary/meta data that is invaluable in doing clever things with the data. Eg. by simply marking something as hostname/ipaddr the ui can hook in pulldown menus to let you do things with that info. I don't know if we've released anything I can point you at easily but 5 minutes would suffice to make a believer of you ;-) BTW libifying apps is a nice thing too, but does not eliminate the need to do all the exact same UI work - just changes where you do it, since the libraries themselves would need to be XO'ified to be useful. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
