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On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 10:16:35PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 22:57:13 +0100 Jan Kundrát <jkt@g.o> wrote: |
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> | On Tuesday 01 of November 2005 19:25 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> | > On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 17:22:29 +0100 Jan Kundrát <jkt@g.o> |
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> | > wrote: |
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> | > | What's wrong with XML format similar to the one that is used for |
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> | > | our GLSAs? |
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> | > 1. Portage does not handle XML. Portage will not handle XML in the |
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> | > near future. |
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> | How will it handle GLSAs then? [1] |
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> gentoolkit != portage. |
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Correct. Course, also incorrect. |
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We already have a module for parsing metadata.xml in use in the |
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experimental 2.1 branch (which can be backported to 2.0 if anyone |
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wants it and does the work). |
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Python comes bundled with xml as long as you don't have the build flag |
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enabled. |
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> | > 5. XML is merely adding another problem to the one we have already. |
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> | Could you please explain? |
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> Parsing XML is complicated. Writing XML is complicated. I put together |
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> a complete working client that can show news items in the plain text |
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> format proposed -- it took me fifteen minutes to write. I threw |
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> together a script which can be called after a cron sync that mails news |
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> items to root in under a minute. There is no way this could be done if |
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> XML were being used -- any task involving news items would be a major |
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> chore. |
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Come on now, this is a bit of bullshit. |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~ferringb/portage_metadata.py, |
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Might be a pain in the ass under the frameworks you deal in, but |
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something as simple as news items can be done pretty quickly. |
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> | > I have an eselect module which can read these news files. The whole |
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> | > thing is about the same size as the DTD would need to be for an |
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> | > XML-based solution. I have a parser written for the format in |
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> | > question. The whole thing is smaller than the initialisation code |
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> | > for an off the shelf XML parser. |
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> | Great. Why haven't you just used existing code from `glsa-check`, BTW? |
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> Because merely figuring out the XML DTD takes longer than it does to |
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> write an entire client for plain text news items. |
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Not arguing for, or against, just pointing out certain arguements are |
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questionable... |
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~harring |
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