Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 14:01:02 -0500 From: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New Pkg System (Re: State of the union, 1999. ) Message-ID: <19990111140102.A25698@netmonger.net> In-Reply-To: <E0zzc6R-0002SX-00.qmail@myrddin.demon.co.uk>; from Dom Mitchell on Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 07:49:35AM %2B0000 References: <199901110416.UAA13553@rah.star-gate.com> <E0zzc6R-0002SX-00.qmail@myrddin.demon.co.uk>
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On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 07:49:35AM +0000, Dom Mitchell wrote: > Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> writes: > > Has anyone thought of using XML , for instance, CDF - Channel Distribution > > Format, for describing packages? > > It sounds a lovely idea for describing the metadata of packages, > IMHO. Definitely prefererrable to the overloaded lines of text that > we have now. > > However, you would have to bring in a fair amount of XML related > software into the tree. Given that Unix is traditionally a > text-processing system, I personally think that this would be a step > forward. I'd love to have XML stuff in the base system that I can > use. easily. But, to bring that much code in *just* for the packages > mechanism is probably overkill. You'd need to start using it > elsewhere to really pay off. But XML is small. What's a "fair amount"? I would think the basics are covered by a (doesn't have to be validating) XML parser library that the package system can link with. I seem to have something like that on my system (required for GNOME): -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 72658 Jan 8 16:29 /usr/local/lib/libxml.a -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 73154 Jan 8 16:29 /usr/local/lib/libxml.so.0 I'm sure there are even smaller implementations available. -- Christopher Masto Director of Operations NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net "Good tools allow users to do stupid things." -- Clay Shirky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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