Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 07:48:04 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: arch@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFD: XMLification of NOTES Message-ID: <7912.1080712084@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:44:19 -0800." <20040331054419.GA44221@xor.obsecurity.org>
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In message <20040331054419.GA44221@xor.obsecurity.org>, Kris Kennaway writes: >Don't change the topic. XML is not required for any of that, and >someone could just as easily write those tools without it. Similarly, >it's just as wrong to assume that changing to XML will magically cause >all these tools to appear. It is true that XML is not required, but XML is the format chosen by the developer who has actually spent time on this, so I don't think you have a particularly strong voice to critize his choice unless you plan to spend your own time working on this issue. Why the f**k are we so quick to shoot our own developers in the back in this project ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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