Machine readable output

[joewez]

I have a downstream application that utilizes the output of the ls command to function.

 https://github.com/joewez/AmpyFileManager

Unfortunately, the latest changes to the output formats has totally thrashed my app!

While I mean to update the application to work with the new formatting ASAP, I have a couple of non-specific requests for help...

1. How do I extract version 1.0.3 from the source on github? I know I should have it as soon as I clone the repo, but I'm not git savvy enough to switch to before the latest changes.

2. Could you consider a means of differentiating the files from the sub-directories with the ls command? As it is, the only general difference is the lack of an extension.

Anyway, thanks everyone for their great work!

[dhalbert]

I'll add tags that mark the versions. Then you can do git checkout 1.0.3. I'll comment here when that's done.

Please write up 2. as a separate issue, maybe with some examples.

[joewez]

Thanks for marking the versions.
I already have a ticket for 2 (Issue #44). I will see if I can flesh it out with some examples.

[dhalbert]

OK, made lots of tags for lots of previous versions. The initial version was 0.9.0, and then it went back to 0.5.0, so I skipped the initial version, since it was out of order.

Do git pull --tags if you cloned the original, or git fetch --tags adafruit if you're using a remote called adafruit (or upstream for upstream, etc.).

[devxpy]

Hey! Sorry, you had this experience.

I plan to add a more computer-readable output (preferably JSON) for other tools to parse.

Your GUI project looks great, looking forward to having first-class support for stuff like this.