bzr with bzr+ssh noisy and output muddled.

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 01:31:20PM +0200 I heard the voice of
David Ingamells, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> The fact that some other less well informed projects do it doesn't
> make it an OK thing to do.

You claim "less well informed".  I say rather that it's a standard,
very common, and highly useful idiom.  That doesn't mean it's the only
choice, or even necessarily the best in any case, but to claim it as
some sort of original sin, or unprecedented perversity of bzr, is
laying it out pretty thick.  Any soi-disant "unix power-user" who
hasn't seen it before has been leading a very sheltered life.


> Respect the meaning of the name: "Standard ERROR", not "any other
> stuff you might want to output but can't think of the proper way to
> do it".

Respect the meaning of the name: TELETYPEWRITER, not "some random way
of entering input and getting output".

Things are rarely just the literal meaning of their name.


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