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

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