Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone automate stdio

[jc007b6093]

Much as I hate to be Windows specific - piping commands into a single
process is normally *much* more efficient under Windows - Windows doesn't
like continuously forking processes (empirical observation), and
invocation of monotone each time a command is requested - the  GUIs can
ask for a lot of information - would not be very performant.

Joel
>>>> Just a small comment; maybe a format using the numeric prefix
>>>> familiar to us all from RFCs like
>>>>
>>>> 200 OK UNKNOWN test/foo
>>>> 201 foo.h
>>>> 201 foo.c
>
> I know it makes sense to add something like this in general.
> But I am against it.
>
> The beauty of "automate" (in my eyes) is its simplicity. You run a
> command. You get back a simple list of information. That's it.
> I propose to give other feedback (an error occured, the query was
> non-sensical) through an error code when mt exits, or through stderr.
> This makes it darn easy to parse it with some scripts without the need
> to have delimiters, escape delimiters, ...
>
> If you need more information, use that
> sed/perl/awk-within-monotone-minilanguage which is being developed to
> control the format, possibly having something like %n for a "error" code
> as you propose. Other will be able to fill in more about this...
>
> spaetz
>
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