Bug 5642 - Support use as an engine behind a GUI
Summary: Support use as an engine behind a GUI
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: rsync
Classification: Unclassified
Component: core (show other bugs)
Version: 3.1.0
Hardware: Other All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Wayne Davison
QA Contact: Rsync QA Contact
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Reported: 2008-07-28 21:53 UTC by Dave Yost
Modified: 2022-08-23 11:20 UTC (History)
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Description Dave Yost 2008-07-28 21:53:17 UTC 
It would be nice to be able to ask rsync to output its verbosity and progress information as xml, so that a GUI could easily parse the info and show it in a GUI.
Comment 1 c.buhtz 2022-08-23 11:20:01 UTC 
As a maintainer of one of that rsync-using-GUIs I would find that also very nice.

But I don't see an advantage with XML. To complex and not human readable. Cost a lot of resources (think about sustainability) to parse.

For me JSON seems to me as a good minimal consent.