svn commit: r46190 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
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Author: bjk
Date: Mon Jan 12 03:17:54 2015
New Revision: 46190
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46190
Log:
Add libxo report
Approved by: hrs (mentor, blanket)
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml Sun Jan 11 16:16:29 2015 (r46189)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml Mon Jan 12 03:17:54 2015 (r46190)
@@ -2265,4 +2265,64 @@
</help>
</project>
+ <project cat='bin'>
+ <title>libxo: generate text, XML, JSON, and HTML output</title>
+
+ <contact>
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Marcel</given>
+ <common>Moolenaar</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </person>
+ </contact>
+
+ <links>
+ <url href="http://juniper.github.io/libxo/libxo-manual.html">libxo: The Easy Way to Generate text, XML, JSON, and HTML output.</url>
+ </links>
+
+ <body>
+ <p>Many &os; utilities provide insight into the operational
+ state of a running &os; system and as such are used regularly to
+ monitor the system. These utilities provide their output in a human
+ readable form and sometimes even optimized for the limited width of
+ traditional terminals. Often times these utilities are used by other
+ programs that want to present the output in different ways or as part
+ of other user interfaces. For such use cases, it is infinitely better
+ to work with machine-readable output instead of human-readable
+ output.</p>
+
+ <p>Juniper Networks has created a library called libxo, that
+ makes it easy for utilities to emit output in various
+ formats. By default the text output is emitted, but with the
+ introduction of the <tt>—libxo</tt> option this can be changed to
+ XML, JSON and HTML. The &os; project has imported this library
+ into the base system and is in the process of rewriting utilities
+ to use libxo.</p>
+
+ <p>Related to this, &os; now also has the <tt>xo</tt> utility that
+ allows scripts to grow the same capabilities. Instead of
+ using <tt>echo</tt> or <tt>printf</tt> in scripts, output can be
+ done using the <tt>xo</tt> utility.</p>
+
+ <p>The <tt>df</tt>, <tt>w</tt>, and <tt>wc</tt> utilities
+ have been converted to use libxo. The <tt>netstat</tt>
+ utility is in the process of being converted and others are
+ planned.</p>
+ </body>
+
+ <help>
+ <task>
+ <p>&os; contains a lot of utilities that could benefit from
+ having the ability to emit various output formats,
+ too many for a few people to convert in time for &os; 11.0-RELEASE.
+ If you or your company would like to see a particular
+ utility converted, consider learning about libxo and
+ trying to perform the conversion of said utility to help
+ out.</p>
+ </task>
+ </help>
+ </project>
+
</report>
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