snap list/find output

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

Thanks, John.

And as usual, winning the argument is not the point. If you have ideas for
how to improve on the proposal, please just shoot a branch or even just a
mocked output and let's talk.

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 1:36 PM, John Lenton <john.lenton at canonical.com>
wrote:

> I think we can do better than your proposal, but it's easier to
> implement than what I had in mind, and I'm running out of both time to
> do this and energy to argue the point. Going with yours as a first
> pass.
>
> On 25 May 2016 at 14:59, Gustavo Niemeyer
> <gustavo.niemeyer at canonical.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:43 AM, John Lenton <john.lenton at canonical.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> With your suggestion for "snap find" output, even with the paltry
> >> packages we have today, you already have just three characters left
> >> before the 80th column for summary, and a third of that width is used
> >> up for "version". That seems wrong to me, and it's only going to get
> >> worse as "Notes" gets used.
> >
> >
> > The length of those fields does not depend on the number of packages we
> > have. We can have just a few, and be close to the maximum expected width.
> > And unfiltered find is likely to get very busy indeed, because you'll
> always
> > be hitting the worst possible width available for all fields. Eventually
> we
> > should likely prevent that command from running altogether.
> >
> > Looking at my 16.04 installation for more relevant data, the max length
> for
> > versions is 52, but the average is 12 and the median is 7. The output of
> > unfiltered dpkg -l starts the summary at column 129, despite displaying
> only
> > the name, version, arch, and summary.
> >
> > I don't think we can win if the goal is having meaningful output for
> > everything under 80 columns.
> >
> >
> > gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net
>
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