Re: SURB integration patches

[Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>]

> Hi, Brian!  Thanks for the patches!  I like your approach, but would
> you be able to rewrite your first patch to use something more like
> GPG's --status-fd mechanism?

Sure thing. Is there a standard for these messages in mixminion yet?
Something like gpg's docs/DETAILS file?

> In the long term, it would probably be a better idea for other programs not
> to rely on parsing log messages; their formats aren't guaranteed to remain
> constant over time, and they're meant for human readability instead of
> machine readability.

Absolutely. In GPG's case the other big difference is that log messages are
localized, whereas --status-fd is always machine-parseable english.

> BTW, I'm going to apply some version of your second patch in the next
> day or two.  Thanks!

great, thanks. If you can think of a better name for the command, I'm all
ears.

cheers,
 -Brian