Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 16:16:38 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org> Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>, Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.org>, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <3D2B6ED6.66FAEF5B@mindspring.com> References: <83FD8E1F-935A-11D6-B320-00039312C852@automagic.org>
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Joe Abley wrote: > On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 10:09 , Terry Lambert wrote: > > Wes Peters wrote: > >> The more you write, the more I see XML as being terribly appropriate > >> for the package metadata. Consider the nesting problem; XML handles > >> this with complete grace if you write it into the DTD that a package > >> can contain a package. > > > > XML would be good, if you didn't have to have 90M of crap in order > > to parse it. > > felix# ls -al /usr/local/lib/libxml.a > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 399096 Jul 9 09:39 /usr/local/lib/libxml.a > felix# There's 1/3 of a floppy disc gone... the cut down "vi" is what, 27K? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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