[libvirt] [PATCHv4 1/2] virsh: add new --details option to pool-list

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:35:32PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/22/2010 12:24 PM, Hugh O. Brock wrote:
> >> Correct, we shouldn't change this behaviour - it'll break apps parsing
> >> the output
> > 
> > FWIW Rich Jones complains that the output as it stands is nigh on
> > unparseable anyway. Perhaps we should consider that a bug, and fix
> > it...
> 
> The new --details option is our chance to change output - it outputs
> whatever format we want, because it is a new flag; Rich, do you have any
> preferences about what it _should_ output?

--details is still targetted at humans. If you want something more
easily parseable it should use a structured format like CSV. So I
don't think we should be overloading --details for this purpose.

Daniel
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