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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gcc-config 2.0 development
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 21:24:18
Message-Id: 20050809221935.5601ce98@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] gcc-config 2.0 development by Jeremy Huddleston
1 On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 13:53:25 -0700 Jeremy Huddleston
2 <eradicator@g.o> wrote:
3 | The configuration files are in XML. I'm a little apprehensive about
4 | having such a core package depend on an outside library like this,
5
6 As you should be.
7
8 | but I think having the xml configuration files allows a much more
9 | robust configuration.
10
11 How so? Using XML doesn't magically make your data files any different.
12 It simply makes them much harder to parse.
13
14 --
15 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
16 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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[gentoo-dev] Re: gcc-config 2.0 development Jeremy Huddleston <eradicator@g.o>