John Snow <js...@redhat.com> writes: > On 8/4/20 4:03 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> The pain of tweaking the parser is likely dwarved several times over by >> the pain of the flag day. > > You mention this often; I wonder if I misunderstand the critique, > because the pain of a "flag day" for a new file format seems > negligible to me. > > I don't think we edit these .json files very often. Generally, we add > a new command when we need one. The edits are usually one or two lines > plus docstrings. > > If anyone has patches in-flight, I genuinely doubt it will take more > than a few minutes to rewrite for the new file format. > > No?
You describe the the flag day's one-time pain. There's also the longer term pain of having to work around git-blame unable to see beyond the flag day. I'm not claiming the pain is prohibitive (if I thought it was, I would've tried to strange this thread in its crib), I am claiming it'll be much more painful (read: expensive) than a parser tweak.
