[parted-devel] Printing partition type in --machine output

[Brian C. Lane]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 02:01:57PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 10/16/2018 6:13 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> > This may be a useful thing to add, but it changes the machine output so
> > I think it would be best to hold off on it until after we do the 3.3
> > release.
> 
> Isn't the problem that it is being inserted into the middle of the
> existing list?  That will break machine parsers of the output.  Adding
> new fields to the end should be perfectly safe though, right?

I wouldn't assume that, it all depends on how it's used and we have no
way to catalog that.

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Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT)