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On 15 Dec 2015 10:24, Anthony G. Basile wrote: |
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> i looked through portage code and we do have xml parsing sprinkled |
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> throughout, mostly in repoman for obvious reasons. why are we trying to |
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> avoid xml? to be honest i don't have strong feelings about either the |
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> flat file (a la /etc/passwd) or xml. |
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> i'm interested in this because the hardened-sources kernel does make use |
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> of some special uid/gids. gengor pointed me to glep 27 and suggested |
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> that i implement it but i wasn't that interested. still, it would clean |
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> up the hardened. |
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i don't think XML adds that much over RST, and are trivial to parse, both |
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on an ad-hoc basis, as well as python has modules to enable it. i think |
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most people would agree RST or flat text files are less verbose than XML |
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w/out really losing that much (if anything). at the time i was thinking |
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XML purely because we were much more of an XML shop at the time (we had |
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guidexml and metadata.xml), but with the rise of wiki/github/glep and the |
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fall of guidexml, the project has moved on. |
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-mike |
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