Le 09/06/2010 21:52, Brice Goglin a écrit : > Le 09/06/2010 21:41, Jeff Squyres a écrit : > >> On Jun 6, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Olivier Cessenat wrote: >> >> >> >>> What you write is clear to computer scientists, but I failed to figure >>> out what it meant. Sorry, it is clear now ! >>> >>> >> FWIW, there's a section about "output formats" in the hwloc-ls.1 man page. >> It's probably worth adding a sentence in there that the list in the man page >> applies to the filenames; i.e., that the filename determines the output >> format. >> >> > By the way, I wonder if we should have explicit --input and --output > options to clarify the lstopo command-line. > For instance > lstopo --xml file.xml file2.png > would be better written as > lstopo --input file.xml --output file2.png > > So basically, I am saying that --input/-i would be a superset of our > current --xml, --synthetic and --fsroot. And --output/-o would be > implicit when passing an filename argument on the command line. And we > could have --output-format/--of to enforce the output without looking at > the filename extension (and maybe --input-format/--if to enforce > xml/synthetic/fsroot). >
Most of the above (except the addition of an explicit --output before the filename) is available in the lstopo branch. Brice
