Re: [ndctl PATCH] ndctl/list: Drop named list objects from verbose listing
On Wed, 2020-02-19 at 10:53 -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > Will this break existing code that parses the javascript output?
> >
> > Always a potential for that. That said, I'd rather attempt to make it
> > symmetric and replace it if someone screams, rather than let this
> > quirk persist because it makes it impossible to ingest region data
> > with the same script across -R and -Rv.
>
> Yeah, I see where you're coming from. However, script authors will
> still have to deal with older versions of ndctl in the wild (for many
> years). If the decision was up to me, I'd live with the wart in favor
> of not breaking scripts when ndctl gets updated. Users hate that.
Let's do a compromise, because users also hate nonsensical legacy that
they can't avoid. How about an environment variable,
"NDCTL_LIST_LINT", that users can set to opt into the latest /
cleanest output format with the understanding that the clean up may
regress scripts that were dependent on the old bugs.
Hm, this sounds good in concept, but how about waiting for this cleanup
to go in after the (yes, long pending) config rework. Then this can just
be a global config setting, and we won't have config things coming from
the environment as well (which this would be a first of).