[rfc] developer documentation on user interaction

[Martin (gzlist)]

On 27/09/2009, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Some British politician -- I can't remember who, and it's irrelevant
> --  promised to be "tough on crime, and tough on the causes of crime"
> and I think one ought to look similarly at APIs that seem to be
> inconsistently used or inconsistently implemented.

Blair, I believe.

So, to extend the metaphor, your plan for Bazaar's IO is to fill up
the stdout buffer so fast that messages are only visible in the
console for a third of the amount of time you'd need to read them?

Martin