From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 11 18:35:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [216.187.105.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B1637B416 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 18:35:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C6B73F2D; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 21:36:27 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: Terry Lambert Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 21:35:29 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: what are these characters please? Reply-To: dan@langille.org Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <3CB634CB.6F306CF3@mindspring.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.01) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Message-Id: <20020412013627.5C6B73F2D@bast.unixathome.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 11 Apr 2002 at 18:13, Terry Lambert wrote: > Let's also be perfectly clear here: you are redefining validity to > suit a particular output processing tool. This adds constraints > at the wrong place: if you are going to have such constraints, > make them on the commit message processing script, to reject commit > messages that don't fit within the arbitrary limitations imposed by > the relatively poor tools you are using. I don't think I'm going to get anyone to modify the FreeBSD cvs commit system in order to suit the needs of FreshPorts. I'm converting the cvs- all email message to XML prior to processing said XML into the FreshPorts database. One goal is expanding the FreshPorts concept to other operating systems (e.g. NetBSD). I'll have even less chance of convincing them to change for me. So I'm assuming I have no control over the incoming data. Therefore, I'll just deal with it. The situations are sufficiently rare that I can safely delete characters I don't like, set a flag in the XML to indicate modified data, and process the XML into the database. At a later time, I can go back in and modify the data accordingly. In the mean time, the commit gets logged into FreshPorts and the users can see it. thanks. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ - practical examples To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message