On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 01:19:27AM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > On 6/13/15 11:38 PM, David Chisnall wrote: > > On 13 Jun 2015, at 11:17, Ian Lepore <i...@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> If you would have told me a year ago that you had a simple scheme that > >> could make 30 years of experience maintaining code for unix-like systems > >> completely worthless I would have been skeptical, but it seems we're > >> well on our way. > > There is a lot of heckling and unhelpful hyperbole in this thread. Reading > > the xo_emit format strings takes a little bit of getting used to, but the > > same is true of printf - it???s just that we???re already used to printf. > > The structured parts (xo_open_container, xo_close_container and friends) > > are clear and descriptive. The changes are fairly invasive, but the > > benefits are also very large for anyone who is wanting to automate > > administration of FreeBSD systems. > > > > If you have suggestions for how the libxo APIs could be improved, then > > please let us know - Phil is very reception to suggestions but objections > > along the lines of ???it???s not what I???m used to and changes sometimes > > break things so we should never have changes??? are not helpful. > > > > David > > > I made a suggestion for an alternate path in the previous thread. > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2015-March/054855.html > > but I have a job and kids so I can't object if I'm not listened to.. > (no time to actually follow my own advice and produce working code.) >
I also pointed out the bloat https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2015-March/054917.html and the poor documentation https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2015-March/054899.html -- Steve _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
