Re: Extending timeclock.el

[Ihor Radchenko]

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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