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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, John Task <q01@disroot.org>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Extending timeclock.el
Date: Sat, 06 May 2023 18:48:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871qjtz479.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2jzxl1f65.fsf@newartisans.com>

John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org> writes:

> If you do extend the _format_, it's likely you may break some of the other
> tools that process timelog data. So if you choose to make an enriched format,
> it would be useful if you provided a way to export this data back to flat
> timelog form (such as by stripping comments). Then I could go from
> timeclock-modern format -> timeclock format -> ledger, for example.

Ideally, one should be able to customize how to parse and write the
format. Then, exporting/importing will just amount for calling
different writer and parser function.

(AFAIU, the data is recorded using some standard internal data structure
already)

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-06 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-05 19:15 Extending timeclock.el John Task
2023-05-06  6:09 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-06  7:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-06 18:35   ` John Wiegley
2023-05-06 18:48     ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2023-05-06 18:48       ` John Wiegley
2023-05-06 19:02         ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-05-06 19:00           ` John Wiegley
2023-05-06 19:09       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-06 19:22         ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-05-06 19:23           ` John Wiegley
2023-05-06 22:10   ` Mike Kupfer
2023-05-09 16:44     ` Mike Kupfer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-05-06 15:47 John Task
2023-05-06 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-06 16:46 John Task
2023-05-06 18:35 John Task
2023-05-06 19:21 John Task

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