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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] pre-GLEP review: Maintainership structure
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2015 16:02:25
Message-Id: 563F7201.2090400@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] pre-GLEP review: Maintainership structure by "Michał Górny"
1 On 11/08/2015 10:53 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
2 >
3 > No. This is going to be PITA to parse, and indefinite recursion is just
4 > wrong. Like you suddenly have to traverse the whole crazy structure to
5 > find a particular project.
6 >
7
8 That's already true if you want the last project in the file =P
9
10 You're just traversing a list of linked lists rather than a linear list.
11 The indefinite recursion is already there: in the draft I can create an
12 infinite number of nested <subproject/> pointers, or worse I could do,
13
14 <project>
15 <name>Foo</name>
16 <email>foo@g.o</email>
17 <subproject ref="foo@g.o"/>
18 </project>

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Re: [gentoo-dev] pre-GLEP review: Maintainership structure "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>