March 7, 2016
10:15 p.m.
On 03/06/2016 04:41 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
As for documenting the tzselect stderr behavior, I'm mildly inclined to leave the exact output sequence undocumented, as I don't think applications should depend on such implementation details.
Users may also redirect/pipe std out from the command line. It is better to document it, then to ambush users and programmers with unexpected behavior. Especially when changing the long established default behavior, which could impact existing use cases (making it NEWS worthy).