Comment 3 for bug 499637

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Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson) wrote : Re: [Bug 499637] Re: run_bzr() fails unless you set a ui factory

Robert Collins wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 00:23 +0000, Martin Pool wrote:
>> Easy to do, but the question is: should the default be to silently
>> absorb the output, or to write it to stdout? Or maybe the default
>> should actually be a text uifactory?
>
> The older behaviour would have written to stdout; the ui factory at
> those times simply meant 'no progress bar'. FWIW that behaviour seemed
> to make folk happy.

I think I agree with this -- output to stdout by default makes sense.
Probably erroring if input is requested is fine.

Cheers,
mwh