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On Tuesday 01 of November 2005 23:16 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> | How will it handle GLSAs then? [1] |
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> gentoolkit != portage. |
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To quote GLEP 14 [1]: |
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"Once this tool is implemented and well tested it can be integrated into |
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portage." |
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> | > It's not a question of "what's wrong with XML?". It's a question of |
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> | > "what advantage would we gain by strapping a giant flapping wet |
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> | > kipper to a bicycle?". |
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> | Or (a little bit rephrased) "why should we stick with consistent file |
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> | formats". |
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> Uh, you'd have to invent a load of new XML DTD stuff for this anyway. |
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Nope. We can build on *existing* GLSA DTD and on *existing* code. The downside |
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is that Portage integration could be slower (same case as with `glsa-check`, |
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AFAIK). |
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> So you're not using a consistent file format at all, you're just using |
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> a consistent unnecessary layer in the middle, which as a side effect |
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> makes your files incompatible with every standard Unix tool ever |
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> written. |
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See below. |
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> Using XML does not magically make things compatible. XML is just a |
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> layer in the middle. Any tool processing XML files still has to worry |
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> about however the DTD in question works. |
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Just to clarify - I don't say that XML is The Best Way To Go (tm), I'm just |
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pointing out another possibility of implementation which is *very* similar to |
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the way GLSAs are processed. |
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GLSA already contains stuff for marking items as valid only for given systems, |
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for "injecting" them etc. Why don't use existing code? Why duplication? |
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Have a look at the XML source of any GLSA. |
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> You think XML magically makes things compatible? Then I suggest you |
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> write a GuieXML to Docbook conversion tool, and see how many thousand |
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> lines of XSLT it takes. All XML does is move the conversion and parsing |
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> problems to a different, more complex level. |
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I'm not familiar with DocBook, but I doubt I'll need thousands of lines of |
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code. |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0014.html |
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WKR, |
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-jkt |
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cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth |
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