[NTG-pdftex] Line breaks in pdftex log

Hello, I hope this is the right list for my question. The choice of pdftex log line breaks at 80 chars makes automatic parsing of errors and reporting the chosen ones by 3rd party apps unnecesarilly hard. I couldn't find any command line switch to turn this feature off (CMIIW) and using max_print_line variable is problematic (you don't want to mess with texmf.cnf as an independent app and using it as environment variable will give you headache with portability to different platforms). Would be adding command line parameter (like --max-print-line=num) or even disabling the line break by default possible in some future versions? Or is there some better option I missed? Thanks, Pavel