Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 21:35:29 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what are these characters please? Message-ID: <20020412013627.5C6B73F2D@bast.unixathome.org> In-Reply-To: <3CB634CB.6F306CF3@mindspring.com>
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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
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