Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 07:29:15 +0000 From: Dom Mitchell <dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk> To: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New Pkg System (Re: State of the union, 1999. ) Message-ID: <E0zzyGJ-0000PV-00.qmail@myrddin.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Christopher Masto's message of "Mon, 11 Jan 1999 14:01:02 -0500" References: <199901110416.UAA13553@rah.star-gate.com> <E0zzc6R-0002SX-00.qmail@myrddin.demon.co.uk> <19990111140102.A25698@netmonger.net>
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Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> 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
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