Re: Extending timeclock.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, John Task <q01@disroot.org>,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 06 May 2023 18:48:26 +0000
> 
> 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.

Doesn't make a lot of sense to me: the timelog file is the internal
implementation detail of timeclock.el, and doesn't need to support
user customization of the format.