Re: [Powertop] Support for printing report in text format in powertop2.x

Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky at gmail.com> Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:12:34 +0300
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.powertop
Message-ID <20120830161234.GA3131@swordfish>
On (08/30/12 10:40), Igor Zhbanov wrote:
> Hi Sergey.
>

Hello Igor,
 
> Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> 
> >no offense, but do we actually need that kind of flexibility?
> I don't know whether the project needs that kind of flexibility but I suppose
> that some general framework could lead to two things:
> 1) Avoid doubling the code for printing in CSV and HTML lines.
> 2) Allows to easily produce correct CSV and HTML files that can be successfully validated.
> 

yes, good points.

so, now we have two proposals for reworks:
UI rework and generalization (scaling, scrolilng, etc.) and proposal for reporting
system generalization and rework, and the latter one is priority (if we stick to
it) --  it's rather hard to depend on UI and pretty easy on output file format, thus
format changes should be done as soon as possible.


	-ss