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From: "René 'Necoro' Neumann" <lists@××××××.eu>
To: Alec Warner <antarus@×××××××××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Automation: Making package.mask better
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 05:26:57
Message-Id: 46A43BE4.1000105@necoro.eu
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4 Alec Warner schrieb:
5 >> It has been a proposal only ... :) As I thought that automatic parsing
6 >> of arbitrary textfiles is an ugly thing to do ... But if you like this
7 >> more *shrug* do it ^^
8 >>
9 >> - - Nec
10 >
11 > And the alternative to parsing arbitrary text files is? Why do you
12 > think it's ugly?
13 >
14 > -Alec
15 >
16
17 It is ugly, because you have to write an (error prone) parser by
18 yourself instead of using a generic one (for XML, sexps or whatever).
19 And it is easier to format the file in a wrong way and thus leading to
20 sth unwanted ...
21
22 But I don't think, this discussion leads somewhere ... (sorry that I
23 brought that topic at all). In the end it's the decision of the poor guy
24 who has to do the work :)
25
26 - - Nec
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Re: [gentoo-project] Automation: Making package.mask better Robert Buchholz <rbu@g.o>