Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:46:53 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Kirill Ponomarew <krion@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Second "RFC" on pkg-data idea for ports Message-ID: <p0602041abca1e49dde40@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20040413121925.GB29867@voodoo.oberon.net> References: <p0602040cbca10a7dbe52@[128.113.24.47]> <20040413121925.GB29867@voodoo.oberon.net>
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At 2:19 PM +0200 4/13/04, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
> >
> > If this project does not seem like it would be worth the
> > effort, then that will be perfectly okay too. Please let
> > me know what you think.
>
>Seems interesting, but why do you want to convert
>ports-collection to XML-like format ? Do you have any
>particular reasons for that ?
I wasn't looking for XML per se, so much as just something that
would be easy for a program to process. This should allow for
pretty arbitrary text for the values of each section, in the
same way that the present plain-files would accept anything.
No need for \'s to escape double-quote characters, or worries
about embedded ${} or any other characters which might be
special to make or to /bin/sh.
But as I thought about adding future features, I ended up with
something that looks more and more like XML...
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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