roberth
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1 month ago JSON would be our choice, as we already have some commands that support --json.
The architecture for this kind of thing is to have it produce typed C++ data that can be rendered either to JSON or to the terminal. We also have guidelines for JSON output.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I'd like to query nix why-depends and parse the output. The output is currently unstructured.
Describe the solution you'd like Ideally a cli option for returning the output as JSON or another similar format would make this much easier.
Describe alternatives you've considered N/A
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