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On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Wyatt Epp <wyatt.epp@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Okay, this has been bothering me....sorry if this is a sort of silly |
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> question, but why not just use the (already extant) metadata.xml for |
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> the...err, metadata about a package? |
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That's because package-manager critical information cannot be included |
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in an XML file, purely to prevent the added overhead of having to |
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implement an XML parser inside every package manager. |
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metadata.xml contains information that is relevant to the user and to |
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developers, not to the package manager. |
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~Nirbheek Chauhan |
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