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On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 03:22:09PM +0000, Dave Mitchell wrote: > Currently perl -V produces output like: > > Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): > Compile-time options: DEBUGGING HAS_TIMES MULTIPLICITY PERLIO_LAYERS > PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV > PERL_HASH_FUNC_ONE_AT_A_TIME_HARD > PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP > PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV PERL_TRACK_MEMPOOL PERL_USE_DEVEL > USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS > USE_LARGE_FILES USE_LOCALE USE_LOCALE_COLLATE > USE_LOCALE_CTYPE USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC USE_LOCALE_TIME > USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF USE_REENTRANT_API > > which personally I find very hard visually to spot whether a particular > option is there, particularly due to the mix of ' ' and '_'. I'd like to > change it to something like: > > Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): > Compile-time options: > DEBUGGING > HAS_TIMES > MULTIPLICITY The main objection from people seems to have been that it makes the output longer. Assuming that all the other perl -V output is made one-per-line too, that makes the blead perl -V on my system expand from 52 lines to 102 lines. Is that really so terrible? Personally, I don't want to use multiple columns or multiple spaces: it's still harder to read than a simple one-per-line. If people are really really adamant, then I'd accept the suggestion of perl -VV to trigger one-per-line output, but it seems like overkill. I'd also in that case want perlbug to use 'perl -VV' - i.e. whatever route we go down, I want the RT emails that go to p5p to display in one-per-line format. -- Never work with children, animals, or actors.Thread Previous | Thread Next