From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7651 invoked by alias); 19 May 2010 11:51:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Workers List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 27957 Received: (qmail 7752 invoked from network); 19 May 2010 11:51:22 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at free.fr does not designate permitted sender hosts) Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 13:50:45 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?RnJhbsOnb2lz?= Gannaz To: zsh-workers@zsh.org Subject: Re: vcs_info and locales Message-ID: <20100519135045.0a113a05@coriolan> In-Reply-To: References: <20100424234017.776ae0ea@coriolan> <87aassncyk.fsf@ft.bewatermyfriend.org> <20100425131944.GA55789@redoubt.spodhuis.org> <8739yjoc84.fsf@ft.bewatermyfriend.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Le 2010-05-19, Richard Hartmann a =C3=A9crit= : > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 16:09, Frank Terbeck wro= te: >=20 > > Probably true. Although, I'd expect programs you can use for scripting > > to use untempered byte sequences. But then, where is the boundary for > > programs that are used for scripting and pure user-interface programs... > > `svn info' is probably a pretty blurry example already. >=20 > While fixing locales is a viable workaround, the root cause is that svn > is not able to present its information in a machine-readable way. >=20 > Would it be worthwhile to try and lobby svn etc to support something > like --output text; --output xml (yah, yah, I know) etc? `svn info --xml` is already there. Several other commands allow `--xml`, especially `log`. It might be irrelevant, but parsing XML could be quite slower, and vcs_info= is already quite slow with svn (no induced blame). Regards -- Fran=C3=A7ois