Re: [gentoo-dev] USE database?

[Geert Bevin]

Well it's maybe nice to edit in an xml editor, but as plain text it's
quite confusing.

On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 22:39, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 08:28:05PM +0100, Sebastian Werner wrote:
>
> > Why not XML... it's really nice to edit i think
>
> Because XML requires a whole new bloated, slow parser, and the python
> parser is fast and the syntax is lean and mean.  Also, if we port to
> C, it would be more effective to support "python-style" dictionary
> definitions that include and entire XML parser.  Also consider that
> XML has no equivalent of python dictionaries.
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