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Re: proclamation of intent
- To: Rick Macdonald <rickm@vsl.com>
- Subject: Re: proclamation of intent
- From: "Tony Parent" <tony.parent@lsil.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 14:30:43 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: Paul Traina <pst@juniper.net>, Bob Manson <bmanson@juniper.net>, gnats-devel@sourceware.cygnus.com, bug-gnats@gnu.org
- References: <19990823104833.A6147@red.juniper.net><Pine.GSO.4.10.9908231158010.20253-100000@sys4>
- Reply-To: Tony.Parent@lsil.com
On August 23, 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote:
[...]
>
> I think you should send out your proposed format of configuration info
> that will be sent to clients that ask for it. I think TkGnats (me) and
> gnatsweb (Ken and Matt) are the only people using this feature. I'd hate
> for you to code a bunch of stuff only to have us bug you to change it
> afterwards! Tcl and perl are great at parsing, but we might as well make
> it simple for ourselves...
I also use it in my Java front end, and Java isn't as good at parsing as
perl/tcl, so I would add my vote to making it (parsing) as easy and
consistent as possible.
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