Hi, On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 at 21:31, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email protected]> wrote:
> I, personally, would welcome breaking their scripts—in exchange > for adding a ‘--format=<something machine-readable>’ option like > we already do for ‘guix search’. A real API that's actually > reliable and supportable. I think that's fair. Well, that’s something I would like since a very long time. Well, I even probably started somewhere an extension as replacement. By <something machine-readable>, do you mean some placeholders? > I just think I'd be outvoted and don't feel like starting a fight > :-) That’s why extension. :-) It would avoid the fight and in the same time it would help in designing such API allowing experimental breakage. Well, I would also welcome this --format=<something machine-readable>. :-) Cheers, simon
