On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 01:01:41PM -0600, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 01/28/10 12:58 PM, Gary Pennington wrote: > >Hi Danek, > > > >Without calculating the maximum width of the output data fields, it's > >not possible to ensure that headers and data are correctly aligned when > >the data is tab separated. > > > >I can accept that there's no need to make headers align with data when > >the output is specified as -F tsv, but surely it's a good thing if it > >is? Otherwise there would be no point in ever requesting that headers are > >present with parseable data, in which case I would be back at the solution > >that I supplied yesterday. > > There's no reason to align the output if it is tab separated; it's a > parseable, although not necessarily human-parseable format. > > If you were to dump the tsv output (with headers) to a file and open > that with a spreadsheet program, or had code that parsed it, it should > be able to discern which headers go with which values. >
I've removed the code that ensures headers and data are aligned in TSV format. I've re-generated the webrev at the same location. Gary > -- > Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
