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Re: Bug#740379: ITP: asciinema -- Record and share your terminal sessions,



On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 05:10:00AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> Are there any reasons to use this over ttyrec or termrec?  It seems to me
> asciinema is strictly worse than:
> ttyrec tmpfile && POST <tmpfile http://asciinema's_url

Is it the same protocol? Nice of asciinema to support it.

> * you can't do things locally
> * there's only a recorder, without a player (you need to use a web service
>   to replay)

That's a plus for me. I almost never want to watch this stuff locally,
and I'm recording for others.

> * it's slow: takes around 2 seconds at the start and end
> * can't be used from scripts (to eg, record everything)
> * can't be used to pipe the output, etc (for termcast)
> * can't edit the recording


Meh.

I've been using it from inside a virtualenv. I might as well have a
system-wide copy that I'm sure is pseudo-trusted and DFSG free.

> -- 
> A tit a day keeps the vet away.

Cheers,
  Paul

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