Bug#886927: ITP: tlog -- Terminal I/O recording and playback package.

[Andrew Shadura <andrew@shadura.me>]

On 11 January 2018 at 21:41, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 11:26:23PM +1100, Will Rouesnel wrote:
>> * Package name    : tlog
>>   Upstream Author : Nikolai Kondrashov <spbnick@gmail.com>
>> * URL             : http://scribery.github.io/tlog/
>>   Description     : Terminal I/O recording and playback package.
>>
>>  tlog is a terminal I/O recording and playback package suitable for
>>  implementing centralized user session recording. At the moment it is not ready
>>  for production and is to be considered development preview quality.
>>
>>  Whereas most other similar packages write the recorded data to a file in their
>>  own format, or upload it to a custom server, tlog sends it to a logging
>>  service. The standard syslog interface is supported already, with journald
>>  possibly to come. The recorded data is encoded in JSON in a way which keeps it
>>  human-readable and searchable as much as possible.
>
> Yay, yet another incompatible format.
>
> For example, my termrec can convert between ttyrec, nh-recorder,
> dosrecorder, RealLogs -- and I bothered to implement only formats that see
> some use in the wild (which excludes eg. script -t, whose two-file
> unhandiness means no one uses it despite coming in an essential package).
> I haven't looked if Asciinema grown a local format when I wasn't looking,
> either.

Asciinema does, indeed, have a local format, JSON-based:

{
  "command": null,
  "height": 22,
  "title": "demo",
  "duration": 37.608602,
  "stdout": [
    [
      0.061412,
      "\u001b]0;\u0007$ "
    ],
    …
    ]
  ],
  "version": 1,
  "width": 80,
  "env": {
    "SHELL": "/bin/bash",
    "TERM": "xterm-256color"
  }
}

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrew