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Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format
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Stephen Leake |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format |
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Mon, 04 Apr 2016 15:26:19 -0500 |
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Markus Wanner <address@hidden> writes:
> Hello Stephen,
>
> thanks for your feedback.
>
> On 04/04/2016 06:58 PM, Stephen Leake wrote:
>> Human readable makes testing and developing new features much easier. If
>> we use binary, we will need a separate tool that translates that to
>> readable, which is then another source of bugs (or the same source, just
>> in a different place).
>
> Yeah, that's a point. However, I'd also argue that we should target the
> user and not the developer. And from a user's perspective, isn't
> monotone the very tool that does that kind of translation?
>
> Or put another way: Do *users* really care what serialization format
> monotone uses underneath?
No, users don't care (as long as the tools work).
Caveat; if they have to compose an email with the Monotone output (to
send it somewhere), ASCII text is safer than binary.
But that means they have no opinion on basic_io vs json, either.
Unless there are _other_ tools (not provided by monotone) that users
could use with Monotone output if it was other than basic_io.
--
-- Stephe
- [Monotone-devel] serialization format, Markus Wanner, 2016/04/04
- Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format, Stephen Leake, 2016/04/04
- Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format, Markus Wanner, 2016/04/04
- Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format,
Stephen Leake <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format, Ludovic Brenta, 2016/04/04
- Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format, Markus Wanner, 2016/04/05
- Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format, J Decker, 2016/04/05
- Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format, J Decker, 2016/04/05
- Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format, Markus Wanner, 2016/04/06
- Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format, Markus Wanner, 2016/04/06
- Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format, Hendrik Boom, 2016/04/06
- Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format, Markus Wanner, 2016/04/06
- Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format, Peter Stirling, 2016/04/07
- Re: [Monotone-devel] serialization format, Stephen Leake, 2016/04/07