From owner-freebsd-ports Tue May 29 12:57: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (216-118-21-146.pdq.net [216.118.21.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CCDF37B423 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 12:56:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwcjr@inethouston.net) Received: from dwcjr (DWCJR.inethouston.net [216.118.21.147]) by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A34410F40F; Tue, 29 May 2001 14:56:55 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <00f601c0e879$82aaeaa0$931576d8@inethouston.net> From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: , "Rich Morin" References: <20010528105709.A9284@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> Subject: Re: XML-based ports system ? Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 14:56:54 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich Morin" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 2:46 PM Subject: Re: XML-based ports system ? > I would be very happy to see the Ports Collection switch to an > abstract, declarative infrastructure. I like the idea of using > XML for this, mostly because of the number of tools that it has. This might be somthing to propose to openpackages.org as I don't think anything is going to change drastically in the ports system until openpackages is implemented. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message