On 2012-05-03, at 9:41 PM, Tim Kientzle wrote: > On May 3, 2012, at 11:27 AM, Andreas Dilger wrote: >> If you are looking for an output format that is relatively easy for humans >> to read, but is still well formatted and machine parseable, please consider >> using YAML. This is a colon-delimited text format, similar to what you >> propose above, but has a few more features. There are YAML parsers for >> virtually every language, so should be considered as the first choice of >> machine-readable textual output, rather than inventing some new format. > > YAML would be reasonable, or JSON or XML. > I'm not very particular. > > I would like to see a written proposal for such a format. > If it looks reasonable, we could easily add it to bsdtar > as well.
YAML and JSON are virtually identical. XML is painful for output that also needs to be human-readable. Cheers, Andreas
