From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 11 23:43:02 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA11563 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 23:43:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA11555 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 23:43:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk) Received: from [158.152.54.180] (helo=myrddin.demon.co.uk) by post.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 0zzyT4-0003jx-00; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 07:42:26 +0000 Received: from localhost (myrddin.demon.co.uk) [127.0.0.1] by myrddin.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #1) id 0zzyGJ-0000PV-00; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 07:29:15 +0000 To: Christopher Masto Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New Pkg System (Re: State of the union, 1999. ) References: <199901110416.UAA13553@rah.star-gate.com> <19990111140102.A25698@netmonger.net> From: Dom Mitchell In-Reply-To: Christopher Masto's message of "Mon, 11 Jan 1999 14:01:02 -0500" X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 07:29:15 +0000 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christopher Masto writes: > On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 07:49:35AM +0000, Dom Mitchell wrote: > > 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. My apologies. I wasn't aware that it was such a small implementation. I would be interested to see such stuff being brought in, in that case. -- When I said "we", officer, I was referring to myself, the four young ladies, and, of course, the goat. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message