Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 34: Per-Category metadata.xml Files
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:59:33
Message-Id: 4236A3F3.5090301@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 34: Per-Category metadata.xml Files by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 [...]
3 > It is proposed that the existing ``metadata.xml`` format [1]_ be used.
4 > Even though XML sucks, there is already a framework in place for these
5 > files. The filename will be ``blah-misc/metadata.xml``. The character set
6 > used shall be UTF-8 for consistency with GLEP 31 [2]_.
7
8 Perhaps you might want to remove any subjective opinions from the GLEP.
9 Specifically, "XML sucks", since it doesn't suck. People just abuse it
10 too much.
11
12 Wkr,
13 Sven Vermeulen
14
15 --
16 ^__^ And Larry saw that it was Good.
17 (oo) Sven Vermeulen
18 (__) http://www.gentoo.org Documentation & PR
19 --
20 gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list