cargo: Add support for `--error-format` now that it has been stablized

It would be great if Cargo could add support for --error-format now that it has been stabilized and merged into rust-master.

This would be a big win for IDEs as we could move away from using RUSTFLAGS.

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Created 8 years ago
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Comments: 16 (15 by maintainers)

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Auto merge of #3000 - matklad:error-format, r=alexcrichton Add --message-format flag. Closes #2982 This adds a `--message-format` flag with values `human` or `json-v1` to commands that may trigger ... — committed to rust-lang/cargo by bors 8 years ago

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ah, streaming, yeah, I’d been thinking about that for the compiler too. It is a pain.It seems solvable in the long term though (and necessary).

Yeah, I’d assume JSON errors would disable colours in any case - it’s not meant to be user-readable.

nrc on Aug 14, 2016

Note that Cargo would have a very difficult time capturing the output of the compiler and then adding its own json. It could, but it wouldn’t be an easy thing to do.

alexcrichton on Aug 12, 2016