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On 07/21/04 Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 21 July 2004 17:34, aeriksson@××××××××.fm wrote: |
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> > > Two things. First off, I'd hope to achieve a lot more than just |
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> > > adding a[S] entry to emerge -pv. |
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> > Care to elaborate? "It's nifty for the future" is a bad argument. |
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> > Far too many times have I came across people who thinks all problems |
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> > goes away if the solution is implemented using xml (I'm NOT saying |
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> > you're one of them). Present the problems you want to fix, and we'll |
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> > discuss them. |
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> Let's deal with the XML vs plain text argument first. |
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> I'm not an XML-everywhere person, but I do believe that XML is *the* |
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> right technology when you want to add meaning to structured data - |
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> meaning that can be re-used in software tools. It's nowhere near as |
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> difficult to use as ASN.1, not as clumbsy as the plain-text markups in |
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> common-use, and if you do read the raw XML in a text editor, most |
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> people can follow what the file says. |
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I'm not completely opposed to XML although I see little use here, but I |
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see the big show stopper: Transition. We have a live tree as well as a |
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dozen tools (estimated) using the Changelogs, some of them aren't even |
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under our control (gentoo-portage.com and porthole are popular |
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examples). How do you plan to change the format in such an environment? |
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Without an answer to that question the whole issue is academic. |
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Marius |
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Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub |
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In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be |
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Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. |
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