Will the output of "bzr status" change?

[Matthieu Moy]

Hi,

There have been a lot of discussion on this list about the output
format of "bzr status", whether it's good or not...

I should be able to implement a bzr-status into DVC rather soon, and
I'd like to know how much I can rely on the output format. (I gave up
with pymacs, not being able to do asynchronous calls is a blocking
problem, and up to now, I didn't have problem with the command-line
interface).

Implementing a parser for this format in Emacs-lisp is not a problem.
Internationalization can be a problem, but I can call bzr with 
"LANG=C bzr ...".  The only problem is that I don't want to hardcode
this format in my lisp code if it may change in the future, so if the
probability of a change is high, I'll write a python wrapper that has
a fixed output format.

[ People not interested in DVC can stop here ;-) ]

I think I'll implement bzr status in a way similar to what Xtla does
for M-x baz-lint RET : display in a buffer something that looks like
the output of "bzr status" (but after parsing it and rebuilding it so
that further manipulation is easier). Operations on a file entry will
apply to this file, and operations on a group name (modified:,
unknown:, ...) will apply to all the files in this group.

The idea is to provide the user an interface similar to the command
line, so using DVC-bzr should teach the user how to use bzr, but it
also provides more features and an integration in Emacs.

Thanks for your comments,

-- 
Matthieu